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DAVID R. MCCANN and BARRY S. STRAUSS, eds. War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. Pp. xxviii, 385. $29.95 (US), paper. ...Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein
ALAN K. BOWMAN, PETER GARNSEY, and DOMINIC HATHBONE, eds. The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed: XI: The High Empire, AD 70-192. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 1,222. $160.00 (US). Reviewed by T. D. Barnes
WARWICK BALL. Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xix, 523. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by C. S. Lightfoot
WILHELM BAUM and DIETMAR W. WINKLER. Die Apostolische Kirche des Ostens: Geschichte der sogenannten 'Nestorianer'. Klagenfurt: Verlag Kitab, 2000. Pp. 174. €18.00, paper. Reviewed by W. H. C. Frend
NATALIA LOZOVSKY. 'The Earth Is Our Book': Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West, ca. 400-1000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 182. $44.50 (US). Reviewed by Marcia Kupfer
MATTHEW INNES. State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 316'. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Wendy Davies
MATTHEW S. GORDON. The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military ofSamarra (AH 200-275/815-889 CE). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 303. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michal Biran
DEBORAH HOWARD. Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100-1500. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 283. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Tavernor
GEOFFREY HOSKING. Russia and the Russians: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 718. $35.00 (US) Reviewed by David Goldfrank
SHIH-SHAN HENRY TSAI. Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 270. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Nimick
GEORGE RAUDZENS, ed. Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns and Germs Theories. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xvii, 304. €84.00 Reviewed by Alfred W. Crosby
KARL GUNNAR PERSSON. Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-igoo: Integration and Deregulation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 173. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by J. A. Chartres
JAMES MCDERMOTT. Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 509. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John C. Appleby
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM and OLE PETER GRELL. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine, and Death in Reformation Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 360. $22.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker
JOHN EGLIN. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 262. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Wilton
JEREMY BLACK. British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 244. £40.00. Reviewed by Rory Muir
LAURA HOSTETLER. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 257. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Dardess
DAVID PORTER. Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 296. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by John E. Wills, Jr.
WILLIAM HALE. Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774-2000. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. ix, 375. $49-50 (US). Reviewed by Kemal H. Karpat
MARTHA MCLAREN. British India and British Scotland, 1780-1830: Career Building, Empire Building, and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 306. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Rosane Rocher
JAMES SCHOFIELD SAEGER. The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 266. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Barbara Ganson
FRANCIS M. CARROLL. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 462. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by E. Jane Errington
T. C. W. BLANNING, ed. The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914. New York:Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 304. $34.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Julian Wright
ARNO J. MAYER. The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 716. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone
JOHN M. KNAPP. Behind the Diplomatic Curtain: Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816-1869. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 343. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder
EDWARD INGRAM. The British Empire as a World Power. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiv, 282. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald Hyam
PAULA REBERT. La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 259. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph Nevins
MARTIN CEADEL. Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 477. $80.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Peter Brock
MICHÈLE CUNNINGHAM. Mexico and the Foreign Policy of Napoleon III. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiii, 251. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ann Pottinger Saab
CHRISTOPHER CLAY. Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1856-1881: A Contribution to Ottoman and to International Financial History. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. Pp. xx, 698. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Feroz Ahmad
ARDEN BUCHOLZ. Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 240. $65.00 (US), cloth; $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ronald J. Granieri
CELESTE RAY. Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xix, 256. $27.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Melton Mclaurin
LAURENT TISSOT. Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la Suisse au XIXe siècle. Lausanne: Editions Payot Lausanne, 2000. Pp. 302. FS 39.00; €22.71, paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Wall
JOHN A. MOSES and CHRISTOPHER PUGSLEY, eds. The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871-1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism. Claremont: Regina Books, 2000. Pp. xviii, 576. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Joan Beaumont
MARKKU RUOTSILA. British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiv, 274. $26.50(US), paper. Reviewed by David S. Foglesong
NICOLA COOPER. France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001 Pp ix, 240. $19.50 (US), paper.Reviewed by Nola Cooke
MARGARET CRITCHLOW RODMAN. Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 247. $24.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Paul D'Arcy
JONATHAN M. HOUSE. Combined Arms: Warfare in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xvii, 364. $19.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Roger Beaumont
STEPHEN A. SCHUKER, ed. with collaboration from ELISABETH MÜLLER-LUCKNER. Deutschland und Frankreich: Vom Konflikt zur Aussöhnung: Die Gestaltung der westeuropäischen Sicherheit, 1914-1963. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000. Pp. xix, 280. €49.80. Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier
CHARLES W. KOBURGER,JR. The Central Powers in the Adriatic, 1914-1918: War in a Narrow Sea. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xxi, 145. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence Sondhaus
HEW STRACHAN. The First World War: I: To Arms. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 1,227. $72.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig
HUBERT P. VAN TUYLL VAN SEROOSKERKEN. The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy, and Survival. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xvii, 381. €99.00; $115.00 (US). Reviewed by Marc Frey
VALERIE HOLMAN and DEBRA KELLY, eds. France at War in the Twentieth Century: Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor. New York: Berghahn, 2000. Pp. x, 164. $55.00 (US), cloth; $19.50 (US), paper Reviewed by Talbot Imlay
MICHAEL F. FELDKAMP. Pius XII. und Deutschland. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. Pp. 236. €14.90, paper. Reviewed by John K. Zeender
BROCK MILLMAN. Pessimism and British War Policy, 1916-1918. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. x, 322. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Gary Sheffield
RICHARD S. GRAYSON. Liberals, International Relations, and Appeasement: The Liberal Party, 1919-1939. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiii, 202. $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Dutton
MARGARET LAMB and NICHOLAS TARLING. From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xv, 238. $14.99 (US), paper Reviewed by P. M. H. Bell
ENDA DELANEY. Demography, State, and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921-1971. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 345- $29.95 (CDN), paper Reviewed by David Harxness
JOANNA LEWIS. Empire State Building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52. Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2001. Pp. xvii, 393. $22.95 (US), paper Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER YOUÈ
PATRICIA C LA VIN. The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. viii, 244. $65.00 (US), cloth; $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by G. Balachandran
GORDON MARTEL, ed. The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society (London), 2000. Pp. xvii, 312. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley
DAVID P. BARRETT and LARRY N. SHYU, eds. Chinese Colla
