Reviews of Books
2007; Routledge; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.2007.9641130
ISSN1949-6540
AutoresH. A. Drake, John J. Contreni, Clyde G. Reed, Jeremy Black, Deborah Howard, Alec Ryrie, Andrew Cayton, Daniel Brower, Alan Frost, David Andrew Roberts, John B. Hattendorf, Norrin M. Ripsman, Eugene F. Irschick, Max Quanch, A. J. R. Russell‐Wood, Reginald C. Stuart, Nancy Mitchell, Ruth Ginio, André Bächtiger, F. R. Bridge, Allan Cassels, Frank Ninkovich, Lothar Höbelt, Maurizio Peleggi, Donald Reid, Andrew J. Crozier, Roger Adelson, Terry Copp, Keith Neilson, David B. Goldey, Betty Miller Unterberger, David W. McFadden, George Egerton, Neville Thompson, John Charmley, Trevor C. Salmon, Michael Seidman, Ian F. W. Beckett, Desmond Morton, Günter Bischof, Lawrence D. Stokes, David Ellwood, Michael F. Hopkins, Scott Lucas, Catherine R. Schenk, Bennett Kovrig, Laurence J. Silberstein, Michael Dumper, Michelle Mart, John Darwin, Glen St. J. Barclay, Christopher J. Gerry, Mira Wilkins, Linda B. Hall, Nigel Ashton, Caroline Andrew, Ole Elgström, Geoffrey Jones, D. E. Moggridge, Richard Lee, Gary B. Ostrower, Charles F. Doran,
Tópico(s)American Constitutional Law and Politics
ResumoFERGUS MILLAR. A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450). Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 279. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by H.A. Drake ERIC J. GOLDBERG. Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817–876. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 388. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by John J. Contreni AVNER GREIF. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 503. $34.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Clyde G. Reed MARCEL DORIGNY and BERNARD GAINOT, with cartographer FABRICE LE GOFF. Atlas des Esclavages: Traites, sociétés coloniales, abolitions de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Paris: Éditions Autrement, 2006. Pp. 79. €15.00, paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Black NICHOLAS WARNER. The True Description of Cairo, A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View. I. New York, NY: The Arcadian Library in assoc. with Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 216; II. Pp. 237; III. Fold-out of the 2x1 metre view. $425.00 (US). Reviewed by Deborah Howard G. W. BERNARD. The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 736. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Alec Ryrie TROY O. BICKHAM. Savages within the Empire: Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford and New York, NY: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 301. $90.00 (US); TIMFULFORD. Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756–1830. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 318. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Cayton ROBERT D. CREWS. For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 463. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Daniel Brower BRIAN W. RICHARDSON. Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 240. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Alan Frost COLIN DYER. The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians, 1772–1839. St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2005; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp. xi, 240. $32.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by David Andrew Roberts ROBERT J. ALLISON. Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779–1820. Amherst and Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf MARK L. HAAS. The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789–1889. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 232. $39.95 (US); DARYL G. PRESS. Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 218. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Norrin M. Ripsman DAVID ARNOLD. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 298. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick PATTY O'BRIEN. The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific. Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. x, 347. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Max Quanchi JOÃO PEDRO MARQUES. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, trans. Richard Wall. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006. Pp. xix, 282. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by A.J.R. Russell-Wood DONALD R. HICKEY. Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006; dist: Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xxix, 430. $50.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart MICHEL GOBAT. Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under US Imperial Rule. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 373. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nancy Mitchell STEPHEN A. TOTH. Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854– 1952. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 212. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ruth Ginio DANIEL ZIBLATT. Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 220. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Andr´ Bächtiger TIBOR FRANK. Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1865–1870. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2005, and Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 444. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by F.R. Bridge GIAN ENRICO RUSCONI. Deutschland-Italien, Italien-Deutschland: Geschichte einer schwierigen Beziehung von Bismarck bis zu Berlusconi. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2006. Pp. xii, 410. €39.90. Reviewed by Alan Cassels PAUL T. MCCARTNEY. Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of i8g8, and the Rise of American Imperialism. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 373. $84.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich GERGELY ROMSICS. Myth and Remembrance: The Dissolution of the Habsburg Empire in the Memoir Literature of the Austro-Hungarian Political Elite, trans. Thomas J. DeKornfeld and Helen D. Hiltabidle. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2006, and Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 278. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt TAMARA LOOS. Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 212. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Maurizio Peleggi JAY WINTER. Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 261. $28.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid PETER J. HEMPENSTALL and PAULA TANAKA MOCHIDA. The Lost Man: Wilhelm Solf in German History. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. Pp. xii, 279. €68.00, paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier SYLVIA KEDOURIE, ed. Elie Kedourie's Approaches to History and Political Theory: ‘The Thoughts and Actions of Living Men’. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii, 182. £65.00. Reviewed by Roger Adelson TIM COOK. Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 326. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Terry Copp KEITH JEFFERY. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 325. $105.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith Neilson CINDY SKACH. Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 151. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by D. B. Goldey NORMAN E. SAUL. Friends or Foes? The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921–1941. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xviii, 434. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger JAMIE H. COCKFIELD, ed. Black Lebeda: The Russian Famine Diary of ARA Kazan District Supervisor J. Rives Childs, 1921–1923. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 199. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by David W. McFadden DAVID P. BILLINGTON, JR. Lothian: Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. x, 252. $129.95 (US). Reviewed by George Egerton PETER NEVILLE. Hitler and Appeasement: The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War. London and New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. xiii, 240. £19.99. Reviewed by Neville Thompson MARK A. STOLER. Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945. London and New York, NY: Hodder Arnold, 2005. Pp. xxv, 292. £25.00; DANIEL C. WILLIAMSON. Separate Agendas: Churchill, Eisenhower, and Anglo-American Relations, 1953–1955. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. v, 144. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John Charmley ROBERT COLE. Propaganda, Censorship, and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 196. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Trevor C. Salmon WAYNE H. BOWEN. Spain during World War II. Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. x, 279. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Seidman TERRY COPP. Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 407. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett JAMES A. WOOD. We Move Only Forward: Canada, the United States, and the First Special Service Force 1942–1944. St Catharines, ON: Vanwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 238. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond Morton FRANK BIESS. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 367. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Günter Bischof HORST BOOG, GERHARD KREBS, and DETLEF VOGEL. Germany and the Second World War: VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943–1944/5, trans. Derry Cook-Radmore, Francisca Garvie, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, and Barbara Wilson. New York, NY: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 892. $250.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes EMANUELE BERNARDI. La riforma agraria in Italia e gli Stati Uniti: Guerra fredda, Piano Marshall e interventi per il Mezzogiorno negli anni del centrismo degasperiano. Bologna: II Mulino, 2006. Pp. 397. €28.00, paper; ANDREA BONOLDI and ANDREA LEONARDI, eds. La rinascita economica dell'Europa: Il piano Marshall e l'area alpina. Milan: Franco Angeli, 2006. Pp. 243. €21.00. Reviewed by D. W. Ellwood ELIZABETH EDWARDS SPALDING. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. ix, 323. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael F. Hopkins ROBERT DAVID JOHNSON. Congress and the Cold War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxii, 346. $25.99 (US), paper; KENNETH OSGOOD. Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xiv, 506. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Scott Lucas CHAD J. MITCHAM. China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949–79: Grain, Trade, and Diplomacy. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xxi, 281. $122.00 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk CHARLES GATI. Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1936 Hungarian Revolt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 264. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Bennet Kovrig JACQUELINE ROSE. The Question of Zion. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 202. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Laurence J. Silberstein KIMBERLY KATZ. Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xvi, 214. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Dumper ELIZABETH STEPHENS. US Policy towards Israel: The Role of Political Culture in Defining the ‘Special Relationship’. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. Pp. xi,339. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by Michelle Mart HENDRIK SPRUYT. Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 305. $22.50 (US), paper; TORE T. PETERSEN. The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961–1969: A Willing Retreat. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 181. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by John Darwin ROBERTO RABEL. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005; dist. Chicago, IL: Independent Publishers Group. Pp. xi, 443. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Glen St J. Barclay SOPHIE MEUNIER. Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 223. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher J. Gerry FRANCESCO DUINA. The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 249. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Mira Wilkins MARÍA CRISTINA GARCÍA. Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 273. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Linda B. Hall ABDUL SALAM A. MAJALI, JAWAD A. ANANI, and MUNTHERJ. HADDADIN. Peacemaking: The Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Treaty. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 353. £35.00. Reviewed by Nigel J. Ashton REKHA SAXENA. Situating Federalism: Mechanisms of Intergovernmental Relations in Canada and India. New Delhi: Manohar, 2006. Pp. 356. Rs 795. Reviewed by Caroline Andrew CHRISTINE INGEBRITSEN, IVER NEUMANN, SIEGLINDE GSTÖHL, and JESSICA BEYER, eds. Small States in International Relations. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press; and Reykjavik: University of Iceland, 2006. Pp. 334. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ole Elgström STEPHEN G. BROOKS. Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Jones NGAIRE WOODS. The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 253. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by D. E. Moggridge FRANKJ. LECHNER and JOHN BOLI. World Culture: Origins and Consequences. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. 267. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard E. Lee S. NEIL MACFARLANE and YUEN FOONG KHONG. Human Security and the UN: A Critical History. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 346. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gary B. Ostrower RANDALL L. SCHWELLER. Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 182. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles F. Doran
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