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A. B. BOSWORTH. Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 218. $81.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Eugene N. Borza
LINDA COOKE JOHNSON. ...Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 440. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Kristin Stapleton
MAYA SHATZMILLER. Labour in the Medieval Islamic World. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. Pp. viii, 450. $156.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan P. Berkey
JONATHAN PHILLIPS, ed. The First Crusade: Origins and Impact. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xvi, 202. £40.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. Reviewed by H.E.J. Cowdrey
>NORMAN HOUSLEY, ed. and trans. Documents on the Later Crusades, 1274-1580. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiv, 204. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Penny J. Cole
THOMAS ERTMAN. Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 363. $59.95 (US), cloth; $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Parrott
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM. The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 400. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by M. N. Pearson
GEOFFREY C. GUNN. Encountering Macau: A Portuguese City-State on the Periphery of China, 1575-1999. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 212. $59.00 (US). Reviewed by Rolf D. Cremer
RAFAEL VARÓN GABAI. Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers: The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-Century Peru, trans. Javier Flores Espinoza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 352. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Ida L. Altman
JOHN BREEN and MARK WILLIAMS, eds. Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 189. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by A. H. Ion
ERIK RINGMAR. Identity, Interest, and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 235. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Douglas Lockhart
R. W. FERMER, ed. A Journey to Persia: Jean Chardin's Portrait of a Seventeenth- Century Empire London: I. B. Tauris, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiv, 193. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Roger M. Savory
CATHERINE MANNING. Fortunes à Faire: The French in Asian Trade, 1719-1748. Aldershot, UK: Variorum, 1996; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. Pp. xxiv, 286. $72.95 (US). Reviewed by Om Prakash
GREGORY H. NOBLES. American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. Pp. xvi, 286. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Gregory Evans Dowe
ERICH DONNERT. Kurland im IdeenERICH DONNERT. Kurland im Ideenbereich der Französischen Revolution: Politische Bewegungen und gesllschaftliche Erneuerungsversuche 1789-1795. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992. Pp. 369. DM 94.80, paper. Reviewed by T. J. Hochstrasser
DANIEL H. BAYS, ed. Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 483. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Susan Naquin
PAUL HALLBERG and CHRISTINE KONINCKX, eds. A Passage to China: Colin Campbell's Diary of the First Swedish East India Company Expedition to Canton, 1732-35. Göteborg: Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, 1996. Pp. liv, 260. SEK350. Reviewed by Glyndwr Williams
J. V. FIFER. The Master Builders: Structures of Empire in the New World: Spanish Initiatives and United States Invention. South Church, UK: Durham Academic Press, 1996. Pp. 320. $22.50 (US); Reviewed by Jack P. Greene
LESTER D. LANGLEY. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 374. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Jack P. Greene
BRENDAN SIMMS. The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 390. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter H. Wilson
DOUGLAS M. PEERS. Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in 19th-Century India, 1819-1835. London: I. B. Tauris, 1995; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 289. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Dewitt C. Ellinwood
PAUL SMITH, ed. Government and the Armed Forces in Britain, 1856-1990. London: Hambledon Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 324. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Travers
STIG FÖRSTER andJÖRG NAGLER, eds. On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 705. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter
BRIAN HOLDEN REID. The Origins of the American Civil War. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xv, 440. £48.00, cloth; £16.99, paper. Reviewed by Joel H. Silbey
DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH. The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life: 1865-1905. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. viii, 202. $57.95 (US). Reviewed by T. R. Ravindranathan
L. CARL BROWN and MATTHEW S. GORDON, eds. Franco-Arab Encounters: Studies in Memory of David C. Gordon. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1997; dist. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Pp. xvii, 484. $29.95 (US).Reviewed by Kenneth J. Perkins
BILL SCHWARZ, ed. The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural History. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. vi, 262. $69.95 (US), cloth; $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John M. Mackenzie
DOUG MUNRO and ANDREW THORNLEY, eds. The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific. Suva: Pacific Theological College and Institute of Pacific Studies, 1996. Pp. xii, 321. $12.00 (US). Reviewed by K. R. Howe
KATHRYN CASTLE. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism through Children's Books and Magazines. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. vii, 198. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Patrick A. Dunae
RENÉ DEL FABBRO. Transalpini Italienische Arbeitswanderung nach Süddeutschland im Kaiserreich 1870-1918. Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 1996. Pp. 312. DM 52, paper; Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder
HANS-HEINRICH NOLTE, ed. Deutsche Migrationen. Münster: Lit Verlag, 1996. Pp. 262. DM 48.80, paper. Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder
AKIRA IRIYE. Cultural Internationalism and World Order. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 212. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Leila J. Rupp
GREG KENNEDY and KEITH NEILSON, eds. Far-Flung Lines: Essays on Imperial Defence in Honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 228. $47.50 (US) cloth; $22.50 (US) paper. Reviewed by Andrew D. Lambert
ARLAND S. HARRIS, introduction and annotation. Schwatka's Last Search: The New York Ledger Expedition through Unknown Alaska and British America: Including the Journal of Charles WiUard Hayes, 1891. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 278. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Coates
PAUL A. COHEN. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 428. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by Roger R. Thompson
MILAN N. VEGO. Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-1914. London: Frank Cass, 1996; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 213. $47.50 (US), cloth; $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Erwin F. Sieche
THEO SCHWARZMÜLLER. Zwischen Kaiser und «Fuhrer»: Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen, eine politische Biographie. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997. Pp. 463. DM 68. Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg
JASON TOMES. Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 323, $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Keith Wilson
RICHARD C. HALL. Bulgaria's Road to the First World War. Boulder: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. 374. $42.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Crampton
MICHAEL BROWN. ?The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. Pp. 396. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stuart E. Knee
JAY WINTER and JEAN-LOUIS ROBERT. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 622. $90.00 (US).Reviewed by Peter Stansky
JEFFREY A. KESHEN. Propaganda and Censorship during Canada's Great War. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 333. $29.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert Craig Brown
MICHAEL PALIJ. The Ukrainian-Polish Defensive Alliance, 1919-1921: An Aspect of the Ukrainian Revolution. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1995. Pp. 391. $44.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John W. Long
PETER BELL. Chamberlain, Germany, and Japan, 1933-1934. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 240. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by R. A. C. Parker
MARK HARRISON. Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxiv, 338. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul R. Gregory
MATTHEW HOLLAND. America and Egypt: From Roosevelt to Eisenhower. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xxxii, 187. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by H. W. Brands
MARTIN SHIPWAY. The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xii, 306. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by William B. Cohen
WOLFRAM F. HANRIEDER. Deutschland, Europa, Amerika: Die Auβenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-1994. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1995. Pp. xxii, 600. DM 88. Reviwed by Michael Wala
LORRAINE M. LEES. Keeping Tito Afloat: The United States, Yugoslavia, and the Cold War. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 246. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig
DAVID CLAY LARGE. Germans to the Front: West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. x, 327. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Rorvig
LESLIE BETHELL, ed. Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth Century Lat
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Deviance, Terrorism, and War: the process of solving unsolved social and political problems. John Burton, Oxford: Martin Robertson. 1979. 240pp. £13.50
The Political Economy of War and Peace: the ...Sino-Soviet-American triangle and the modern security problematique. Richard K Ashley, London: Frances Pinter. 1980. 384 pp. £15.00
The Third World Reassessed. Elbaki Hermassi, London: University of California Press. 1980. 223 pp. £9.00
Building in Hot Dry Climates. Bawant Singh Saini, Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1980. 176pp. £15.00
Territory and Function: the evolution of regional planning. John Friedmann and Clyde Weaver, London: Edward Arnold. 1979. 240pp. £9.95
Foreign Enterprise in Developing Countries. Isaiah Frank, London: John Hopkins University Press. 1980. 199pp. £3.50
Trade Amongst Growing Economies. Ian Steedman, Cambridge University Press. 1979. 157 pp. £9.50
The Development Process: spatial perspective. Akin L Mabogunje, London: Hutchinson University Library for Africa. 1980. 383 pp. £12.00. £5.50 pb
Food for the Future. Keith O Campbell, London: University of Nebraska Press. 1979. 188 pp. £7.50
Water, Health and Development. R Feachem et al, London: Tri-Med Books. 1978. 267 pp. £3.25
Evaluation for Village Water Supply Planning. S Caimcross et al, Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1980. 179 pp. £7.70
Safe Drinking Water: current and future problems. Edited by C S Russell, Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. 641 pp. $12.00
The Soviet Union in World Politics. Edited by Kurt, London. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press (distributed in the UK by Croom Helm). 1980. 380 pp. £14.95
Legal Aspects of the New International Economic Order. Edited by Kamal Hossain, London: Frances Pinter. 1980. 285 pp. £15.00
The First British Commonwealth: essays in honour of Nicholas Mansergh. Edited by Norman Hillmer and Philip Wigley, London: Frank Cass. 1980. 192 pp. £ 12.50
The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa. Edited by Pierre L van den Berghe, London: Croom Helm. 1979. 164pp. £8.50
Suffer the Future: policy choices in southern Africa. Robert I Rotberg, London: Harvard University Press. 1980. 311pp. £9.00
Africa and International Communism. Edited by David E Albright, London: Macmillan. 1980. 277pp. £12.50. £4.95pb .
African Women. Christine Obbo, London: Zed Press. 1980. £12.95
Fighting Two Colonialisms: women in Guinea-Bissau. Stephanie Urdang, New York: Monthly Review Press. 1979. 320pp. £8.95
General History of Africa: Vol 1, methodology; Vol 2, ancient civilisations of Africa UNESCO, London: Heinemann Educational. 1981. 800pp & 832pp. £13.50 per vol
The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia: a wealthy theocracy in comparative perspective. Stanley R Barrett, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 1977. 251pp. £5.95pb
Beyond Manila: Philippine rural problems in perspective. Gelia Castillo, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. 1979. 420 pp. $18.00
Japan, China and the Modern World Economy: toward a reinterpretation of East Asian development ca. 1600 to ca. 1918. Frances V Moulder, Cambridge University Press. 1979. 255pp. £3.95 pb
The Chinese and the Japanese: essays in political and cultural interactions. Edited by Akira Iriye, Princeton University Press. 1980, 368pp. £13.70. £5.45 pb
Schooling in the ASEAN Region: primary and secondary education in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Edited by T Nevile Postlethwaite and R Murray Thomas, Oxford: Pergamon. 1980. 328 pp. $22.00
Pasture and Politics: economics, conflict and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern Iran. Richard Tapper, London: Academic Press. 1979. 312 pp. £17.00
The Lebanese Civil War. Marius Deeb, New York: Praeger. 1980. 158p. £16.00
Reason Wounded: an experience of India's emergency. Primila Lewis, London: George Allen and Unwin. 1980. 220pp. £5.50
Japan's Economic Aid. Alan Rix, London: Croom Helm. 1980. 286 pp. £14.95
Law and State in Papua New Guinea. Peter Fitzpatrick, London: Academic Press 1980. 290pp. £12.60
Malacca, Singapore and Indonesia Vol 2: international straits of the world. Michael Leifer, The Hague: Sijthoff and Noordhoff. 1978. 217pp. np
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: clergy-state relations in the Pahlavi period. Shahrough Akhavi, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. 1980. 255 pp. $9.95 pb
Iran: from religious dispute to revolution. Michael M J Fischer, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard. 1980. 314 pp. £10.50
The Rise and Fall of the Shah: 1941-79. Amin Saikal, London and Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1980. 279 pp. £7.95
The Shah's Story: an autobiography. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, London: Michael Joseph, 1980. 240 pp. £8.50
Multinationals in Latin America: the politics of nationalisation. Paul E Sigmund, London: University of Wisconsin Press. 1980. 426pp. £13.50. £3.90 pb
University and Government in Mexico: autonomy in an authoritarian system. Daniel C Levy, New York: Praeger. 1980. 174pp. £13.00
Sex and Class in Latin America: women's perspective on politics, economics and the family in the Third World. Edited by June Nash and Helen Icken Safa London: Zed Press. 1980. 330 pp. £4.95 pb
Assassination on Embassy Row. John Dinges and Saul Landau, London: Writers and Readers. 1981. 411 pp. £6.95 pb