Review of Books Hornblower, Simon; Agnew, John A.; Allsen, Thomas T. ...
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MICHAEL BENTLEY, ed. Companion to Historiography. London and New York: Roudedge, 1997. Pp. xvii,997. $150.00 (us). Reviewed by Simon Hornblower
JEREMY BLACK. Maps and History: Constructing Images of ...the Past. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. 267. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John A. Agnew
GANG DENG. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 BC-1900AD. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 218. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen
RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN, ed. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 372. $49.95 (us); Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 493. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Dennis R. Papazian
ANTONIO SANTOSUOSSO. Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167 BC. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. x, 277. $22.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Hodgkinson
THOMAS T. ALLSEN. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 137. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Ruth I. Meserve
HUGH KENNEDY. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xvi, 342. £15.99. Reviewed by Maya Shatzmiller
MICHAEL COSTEN. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York; St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 229. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by James A. Brundage
JAMES L. GILLESPIE, ed. The Age of Richard II. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 256. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Tuck
S. A. M. ADSHEAD. Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800: The Rise of Consumerism. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Craig Cluna
J. J. CLARKE. Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter between Asian and Western Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 273. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Tsin
P. E. H. HAIR. Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450-1700. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xx, 324. $94.95 (us). Reviewed byNorman R. Bennett
GODFREY GOODWIN. The Janissaries. London: Saqi Books, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 288. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan
JOHN M. HEADLEY. Church, Empire, and World: The Quest for Universal Order, 1520-1640. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. x, 322. $89.98 (us); JOHN M. HEADLEY. Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 399. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by William Mccuaig
DAVID MCDOWALL. A Modern History of the Kurds. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xii, 480. $17.95 (us) paper. Reviewed by Kemal H. Karpat
GLYNDWR WILLIAMS. The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570- 1750. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 300. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell
RONALD G. ASCH. The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Heinz Duchhardt
DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 273. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy
GRETE KLINGENSTEIN and FRANZ A. J. SZABO, eds. Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711-1704: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung. Graz: Andreas Schnider Verlagsatelier, 1996. Pp. iv, 499. $46.00 (us). Reviewed by P. G. M. Dickson
THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN. Aryans And British India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 260. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick
MATTHEW H. EDNEY. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 458. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers
ORVILLE T. MURPHY. The Diplomatic Retreat of France and Public Opinion on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1783-1789. Washington: Cadiolic University of America Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 193. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Marsha Frey
J. E. COOKSON. The British Armed Nation, 1793-1815. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vi, 286. $121.50 (CDN). Reviewed by H. T. Dickinson
ANTHONY S. BENNELL. The Making of Arthur Wellesley. London: Sangam Books, 1997. Pp. viii, 235. £17.95. Reviewed by Enid M. Fuhr
DAVID CURTIS SKAGGS and GERARD T. ALTOFF. A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by E. Jane Errington
ZEYNEP ÇELIK. Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 236. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by John Ruedy
PETER YOUNG and PETER JESSER. The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 391. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor
JOST DÜLFFER, MARTIN KRÖGER, and ROLF-HARALD WIPPICH. Vermiedene Kriege. Deeskalation von Konflikten der Großmächte zwischen Krimkrieg uni Erstem Weltkrieg, 1856-1914. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. Pp. vi, 716. DM 98, paper. Reviewed by Ivo N. Lambi
PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xiii, 391. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Robert D. Cuff
THOMAS FISCHER. Die verlorenen Dekaden: ←Entwicklung nach außen→ und ausländische Geschäfte in Kolumbien, 1870-1914. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 472. $76.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by JÜRgen Buchenau
FREDERICK F. ANSCOMBE. The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 270. $17.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Caesar E. Farah
LEILA J. RUPP. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 325. $19.95 (us)> paper. Reviewed by Harriet Hyman Alonso
IAN ROBERT DOWBIGGIN. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 245. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Angus Mclaren
MYUNG-KEUN CHOI. Changes in Korean Society between 1884-1910 as a Result of the Introduction of Christianity. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xx, 321. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by James H. Grayson
ALEX MCKAY. Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947. Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 293. £65.00. Reviewed by Ian Copland
WILLIAM N. TILCHIN. Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 302. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Collin
SAMUEL HYNES. The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York and London: Allen Lane and Penguin, 1997. Pp. xvi, 318. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Jacek Wiśniewski
STEPHEN GARTON. The Cost of War: Australians Return. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 298. $53.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Christina Twomey
WILLIAM ALLISON. American Diplomats in Russia: Case Studies in Orphan Diplomacy, 1916-1919. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 190. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Betty M. Unterberger
T. HUNT TOOLEY. National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 320. $56.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Krüger
DAVID CHUTER. Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919- 2001. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xi, 356. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite
G. F. KRIVOSHEEV, ed. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, trans. Christine Barnard. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1997. Pp. xiv, 290. £21.95. Reviewed by Steven Rosefielde
RAYMOND PEARSON. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 194. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Graeme Gill
WARREN F. KUEHL and LYNNE K. DUNN. Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Mations, 1920-1939. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 306. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by George Egerton
ALEKSANDR M. NEKRICH. Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations, 1922-1941, ed. and trans. Gregory L. Freeze. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 308. $35.00 (us); DIANE P. KOENKER and RONALD D. BACHMAN, eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997. Pp. xxv, 808. $59.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Haslam
D. A. Low. Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Ambiguity, 1929- 1942. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 358. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh
CHARLES REARICK. The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 321. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Judith Devlin
DEREK H. ALDCROFT. Studies in the Interwar European Economy. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. ix, 229. $72.95 (us). Reviewed by Sidney Pollard
PATRICIA CLAVIN. The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France, and the United States, 1931-36. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré
BENJAMIN WELLES. Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 437. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Warren F. Kimball
TOM BUCHANAN. Britain and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 241. $64.95
