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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
Book reviews Ling, Peter J.; Lawson, Roger; Roper, Henry ...
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
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James W. Button, BLACKS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: IMPACT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 3rd ed., 1993, xix + 326 pp., $16.95.
James Max ...Fendrich, IDEAL CITIZENS: THE LEGACY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993, Pp xxiv + 202 pp., $16.95.
Richard Layard, Olivier Blanchard, Rudiger Dornbusch and Paul Krugman, EAST-WEST MIGRATION. THE ALTERNATIVES Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, The MIT Press, 1992, 94 pp., £11.50.
J. I. Little, CROFTERS AND HABITANTS: SETTLER SOCIETY, ECONOMY AND CULTURE IN A QUEBEC TOWNSHIP, 1848-1881, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991, 368 pp., £37.95.
Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt (eds), WHAT CAN TRIBES DO? STRATEGIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICAN INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Los Angeles, CA: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90024-1548, 1992, 336 pp., $15.00 plus $1.25 shipping and handling.
Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry, THE POLITICS OF ANTAGONISM: UNDERSTANDING NORTHERN IRELAND, London: The Athlone Press, 1993, xvii + 358 pp., £28.00 and £10.95 (paper).
Kenneth Christie, POLITICAL PROTEST IN NORTHERN IRELAND: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, Reading: Link Press, 1992, viii + 175 pp., £20.
M. McConville and D. Shepherd, WATCHING POLICE, WATCHING COMMUNITIES, London: Routledge, 1992, 271 pp., £45.00.
David Denney, RACISM AND ANTI-RACISM IN PROBATION, London: Routledge, 1992, 204 pp. £11.99.
W. I. U. Ahmad (ed.), THE POLITICS OF 'RACE' AND HEALTH, Bradford: Race Relations Research Unit, University of Bradford and Bradford & Ilkley Community College 1992, £37.50 and £12.99 (ppr)
Chris Johnson, WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE: VOICES FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA, London, Macmillan, 1992, 197 pp., npl.
Geoffrey Sherington, 1990, AUSTRALIA'S IMMIGRANTS, THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE, 2nd ed., Allen and Unwin, Sydney. 199s.
James Jupp, 1991, IMMIGRATION, AUSTRALIAN RETROSPECTIVES, Sydney University Press, 136s.
Andrew Markus, GOVERNING SAVAGES, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990, 224 pp., £9.95 pb.
Panikos Panayi (ed.), RACIAL VIOLENCE IN BRITAIN: 1840-1950, London: Leicester University Press, 1993, x + 174 pp., £37.50.
Geoffrey Alderman, MODERN BRITISH JEWRY, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, 397 pp., £40.00.
Michael Berkowitz, ZIONIST CULTURE AND WEST EUROPEAN JEWRY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, xviii + 255 pp. £29.95.
Paul Lawrence Rose, GERMAN QUESTION/JEWISH QUESTION: REVOLUTIONARY ANTISEMITISM FROM KANT TO WAGNER, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992, 397 pp., $16.95 (ppr.)
John Milfull (ed.), WHY GERMANY? NATIONAL SOCIALIST ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT, Providence, RI, and Oxford: Berg, 1993, vi + 257 pp., $56, £35.
Ronald Headland, MESSAGES OF MURDER: A STUDY OF THE REPORTS OF THE EINSATZGRUPPEN OF THE SECURITY POLICE AND THE SECURITY SERVICE, 1941-1943, London and Toronto: Associated University Presses (Rutherford, Madison, and Teaneck, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), 1992, 303 pp., £35.00.
William B. Helmreich, AGAINST ALL ODDS: HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THE SUCCESSFUL LIVES THEY MADE IN AMERICA, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, 349 pp., $23.00
Paul Hainsworth (ed.), THE EXTREME RIGHT IN EUROPE AND THE USA, London: Pinter, 1992, 320 pp., £45.00.
Marianne Debouzy (ed.), IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: IMMIGRANTS, WORKERS, AND CITIZENS IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 1880-1920, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992, x + 320 pp., npl.
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Pressure Groups in the Global System. Edited by Peter Willetts, London: Frances Pinter. 1982. 225pp. £14.50. £6.95pb
First Things First: meeting basic needs in developing countries. Paul Streeten, ...with Shahid Javed Burki, Mahbub ul-Haq, Norman Hicks and Frances Stewart, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1982. 206pp. £10.00. £3.95pb
Internationalisation of Capital: Prospects for the Third World. A re-examination of dependency theory. Henrik Secher Marcussen and Jens Erik Torp, London: Zed Press. 1982. 181pp. £5.95pb
Dynamics of Global Crisis. Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi, André Gunder Frank and Immanuel Wallerstein, London: Macmillan. 1982. 248pp. £12.50. £4.95pb
Witnesses to the Origins of the Cold War. Thomas T Hammond, London: University of Washington Press. 1982. 318pp. £16.85
Cold War Theories (Vol. 1: World Polarisation, 1943-53). Kenneth W Thompson, London: Lousiana State University Press. 1981. 213pp. £14.95
Higher Education in the Third World: themes and variations. Philip G Altbach, Singapore: Maruzen Asia and Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development. 1982. 228pp. np.
The Real Terror Network: terrorism in fact and propaganda. Edward S Harman, Boston: South End Press. 1982. 252pp. np
Biomass for Energy in the Developing Countries. D O Hall, G W Barnard and P A Moss, Oxford: Pergamon, 1982, 220 pp.$20.00 pb
The Muslim Mind. Charis Waddy, London: Longman. 1982 (2nd edn.). 216pp. £10.95
Education and Development. Edited by Lascelles Anderson and Douglas Windham, Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington. 1982. 213pp. £18.50
CIA and the Third World: a study in crypto-diplomacy. Satish Kumar, London: Zed Press. 1981. 200pp. £12.95
The Economy of Yugoslavia. Fred Singleton and Bernard Carter, London: Croom Helm. 1982. 279pp. £19.95
Self-management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World. Hans Dieter Seibel and Ukandi G Damachi, London: Macmillan. 1982. 316pp. £20.00
Aquaculture Development in Less Developed Countries: social, economic and political problems. Edited by Leah J Smith and Susan Peterson, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1982. 152pp. £14.95
Towards a Newer World. B R Sen, Dublin: Tycooly International. 1982. 341pp. £27.50. £17.50pb
Cultural Development: some regional experiences. Paris: UNESCO Press. 1981. 476pp. np
Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914 (Vol 1: New Babylon). Charles van Onselen, London: Longman. 1982. 213pp. £4.95pb.
Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914 (Vol 2: New Nineveh). Charles van Onselen, London: Longman. 1982. 220pp. £4.95pb.
Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture and consciousness, 1870-1930. Edited by Shula Marks and Richard Rathbone, London: Longman. 1982. 383pp. £5.95pb.
Tanzania: a political economy. Andrew Coulson, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1982. 394pp. £6.95pb
The Awakening Giant: China's ascension in world politics. Harish Kapur, The Hague: Sijthoff and Noordhoff. 1981. 316pp. DFL 150.00
Employment Opportunities and Equity in Egypt. Bent Hansen and Samir Radwan, Geneva: ILO. 1982. 292pp. SF35.
The Political and Economic Development of Modern Turkey. William Hale, London: Croom Helm. 1981. 279pp. £13.50.
Energy Planning For Developing Countries: a study of Bangladesh. R J deLucia and H D Jacoby, London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1982. 298 pp. £18.00
Women and Development: perspectives from South and Southeast. Asia Edited by Rounaq Jahan and Hanna Papanek, Dacca: Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs. 1979. np
The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891. Thomas F O'Brien, New York: New York University Press. 1982. 211pp. $30
Revolution in Central America. Edited by The Stanford Central American Action Network, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1983. 508pp. £21.95. £10.25pp
The History of Christianity in West Africa. Edited by O U Kalu, London: Longman, 1980.378pp. np
Prophecy and Revolution: the role of prophets in the independent African churches and in biblical tradition. Nathaniel I Ndiokwere, London: SPCK. 1981 319pp. £8.50pb.
Achebe's World: the historical and cultural content of the novels of Chinua Achebe. Robert M Wren, London: Longman. 1981. 166pp £4.50pb
African Language Literatures: an introduction to the literary history of sub-Saharan Africa. Albert Gérard, London: Longman. 1981. 398pp. £7.50pb
Communist Annies in Politics. Edited by Jonathan R Adelman, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1982. 215pp. £14.25
Estimating Foreign Military Power. Edited by Philip Towle, London: Crom Helm. 1982. 276pp. £13.95
Deadly Deceits: my 25 years in the CIA. Ralph W McGehee, New York: Sheridan Square Publications. 1983. 231pp. np
