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MICHAEL RICHTER. Ireland and Her Neighbours in the Seventh Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 256. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
TIMOTHY BROOK and GREGORY BLUE, eds. China ...and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 291. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Gang Deng
ANDREAS KIESEWETTER. Die Anfänge der Regierung König Karls II. von Anjou (1278-1295): Das Königreich Neapel, die Grafschaft Provence und der Mittelmeerraum zu Ausgang des 13. Jahrhunderts. Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 1999. Pp. 650. DM 168.00. Reviewed by Jean Dunbabin
PETER JACKSON. The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 367. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Jos Gommans
ARND REITEMEIER. Auβenpolitik im Spätmittelalter: Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen dem Reich und England, 1377-1422. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1999. Pp. 572. DM 98.00. Reviewed by Jens Röhrkasten
THOMAS H. B. SYMONS, ed., with the assistance of STEPHEN ALSFORD and CHRIS KITZAN. Meta Incognita: A Discourse of Discovery: Martin Frobisher's Arctic Expeditions, 1576-1578: Volume I. Pp. xlvi, 298; Volume II. Pp. vi, 299-636. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1999. $45.00 (CDN) for set; paper. Reviewed by G. V. Scammell
PIETER EMMER. The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880: Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, Variorum, 1998. Pp. xi, 283. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by B. W. Higman
NABIL MATAR. Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 268. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Edhem Eldem
ALAN FROST and JANE SAMSON, eds. Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 334. $27.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by I. C. Campbell
L. M. CULLEN. The Brandy Trade under the Ancien Régime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 284. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Butel
MARIANNE S. WOKECK. Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. xxx, 319. $21.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by P. C. Emmer
SEYMOUR DRESCHER. From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 454. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Klein
MICHAEL D. PEARLMAN. Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999; dist. London: Eurospan. Pp. xi, 441. £35.95. Reviewed by Jerry Cooper
KIRSTY CARPENTER. Refugees of the French Revolution: Émigrés in London, 1789-1802. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 259. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Simon Burrows
EMMA VINCENT MACLEOD. A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars against Revolutionary France, 1792-1802. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. viii, 240. $76.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. Cookson
KOSTAS P. KOSTIS, ed. Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. vi, 255. $86.95 (US). Reviewed by Guy Vanthemsche
LATA MANI. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 246. $18.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert Eric Frykenberg
KENNETH D. LEHMAN. Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 296. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by William P. Stedman
PETER BALDWIN. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 581. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Slack
CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT-NOWARA. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 239. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Franklin W. Knight
DAVID WALKER. Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999. Pp. xv,312. $29.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by Peter Phelps
FAREED ZAKARIA. From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 199. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard Rosecrance
ECKARD MICHELS. Deutsche in der FremdenUgion, 1870-1965: Mythen und Realitäten. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1999. Pp. 362. DM 68.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey Wawro
RAYMOND E. DUMETT. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 396. $19.95 (US)> paper; DIANE FROST. Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 278. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Ray A. Kea
PAUL CHARLES MERKLEY. The Politics of Christian Zionism, 1891-1948. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. x, 223. $52.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Rory Miller
AMIRA SONBOL, trans, and ed. The Last Khedive of Egypt: Memoirs of Abbas Hilmi II. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1998. Pp. xiii,390. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Israel Gershoni
FRANCIS ANTHONY BOYLE. Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898-1922). Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 220. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eileen Scully
DAVID WOLFF. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 255. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by R. Edward Glatfelter
ROBERT BICKERS. Britain in China: Community, Culture, and Colonialism, 1900-1949. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xii, 276. £45.00. Reviewed by D. W. Clayton
SUSAN STRASSER, CHARLES MCGOVERN, and MATTHIAS JUDT, eds. Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 477. $59.95 (US), cloth; $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joy Parr
JOANNA BOURKE. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 509. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by S. P. MacKenzie
NICHOLAS A. LAMBERT. Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 410. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton
SUSAN R. GRAYZEL. Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xix, 334. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Margaret R. Higonnet
TRUDI TATE. Modernism, History, and the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. vii, 196. $27.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Robert L. Nelson
STÉPHANE COURTOIS, NICOLAS WERTH, JEAN-LOUIS PANNÉ, ANDRZEJ PACZKOWSKI, KAREL BARTOŠEK, and JEAN-LOUIS MARGOLIN, eds. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, trans. Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 858. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Peter Konecny
CECELIA LYNCH. Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 238. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by James Hinton
PHILIPP HEYDE. Das Ende der Reparationen: Deutschland, Frankreich und der Youngplan, 1929-1932. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1998. Pp. 506. DM 128.00. Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier
B. J. C MCKERCHER. Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 403. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Warren F. Kimball
STEFAN HELL. Der Mandschurei-Konflikt: Japan, China und der Völkerbund, 1931 bis 1933. Tübingen: Universitas Verlag Tübingen, 1999. Pp. 285. DM 48.00, paper. Reviewed by Manfred Jonas
THOMAS W. ZEILER. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 267. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Emily S. Rosenberg
ROBERT STRADLING. The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39: Crusades in Conflict. Manchester: Mandolin, 1999; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 288. $79.95 (US); FEARGHAL MCGARRY. Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War. Cork: Cork University Press, 1999. Pp. 326. IR £45.00, cloth; IR £15.95, paper. Reviewed by Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
YOSSI KATZ. Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xii, 209. $49.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Motti Golani
MICHAEL DOCKRILL. British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-40. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 212. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John Charmley
MICHAEL JABARA CARLEY. 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999. Pp. xxv, 321. $28.95 (US). Reviewed by Talbot Imlay
DAVID M. GLANTZ. Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. x, 421. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Mary R. Habeck
WILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK. France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 291. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anne Deighton
KEES BOTERBLOEM. Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 435. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by J. Arch Getty
CAROLINE WIEDMER. The Claims of Memory:
