Reviews of Books
2009; Routledge; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.2009.9641160
ISSN1949-6540
AutoresMichael Kent Curtis, Hew Strachan, Peter C. Perdue, Maria Federica Petraccia, Steven W. Hirsch, John O. Voll, Conrad Leyser, Malcolm Barber, Peter Jackson, James S. Grubb, Peter H. Wilson, Derek Beales, Christon I. Archer, Brendan Simms, John G. Reid, Barbara J. Messamore, Luís Alberto Alonso González, Ralph A. Austen, Timothy E. Anna, Hugh Goddard, John M. MacKenzie, Stefan Berger, Robert J. Blyth, William D. Godsey, John Gooch, David Laven, Douglas M. Peers, Vaclav Smil, Barry Eichengreen, John W. Young, Мелисса Фейнберг, Norman E. Saul, Allen Guttmann, Michael L. Conniff, Nancy Snow, Catherine Davies, Sarah Stockwell, John Ferris, David R. Marples, David French, Warren I. Cohen, Frank Ninkovich, Bennett Kovrig, Michael Jabara Carley, Mary C. Wilson, Marta Magdalena Stachurska, Patrick H. Brennan, Bob Moore, Martin Thomas, Janice Matsumura, Charles W. Hayford, Raymond G. Stokes, Seth Jacobs, Gilbert Rozman, Šumit Ganguly, Marilyn B. Young, Nancy Mitchell, John Redwood, Antulio J. Echevarria, Roger Chickering,
ResumoAbstract ANTHONY PAGDEN. Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvi, 548. £20.00. Reviewed by Michael Curtis JURGEN BRAUER and HUBERT VAN TUYLL. Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 403. $29.00 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan RAFIS ABAZOV. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; dist. Bolton, ON: H. B. Fenn. Pp. xvii, 124. $75.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue LUIGI LORETO. La grande strategia di Roma nell'età della Prima guerra punica (c.273-c.229 AC): L'inizio di un paradosso. Naples: Jovene Editore, 2007. Pp. xvi, 286. €35.00, paper. Reviewed by Maria Federica Petraccia BRUCE LINCOLN. Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 176. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Steven W. Hirsch NOAH FELDMAN. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 189. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by John O. Voll LIUDPRAND OF CREMONA. The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona, trans., intro., and notes, Paola Squatriti. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 296. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Conrad Leyser DAVID NICOLLE. Crusader Warfare: I: Byzantium, Europe, and the Struggle for the Holy Land, 1050-1300 AD. London and New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xiv,3o6. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Malcolm C. Barber MICHAEL C. BROSE. Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire. Bellingham, WA: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 2007. Pp. xv, 348. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Jackson PIETRO BEMBO. History of Venice: I: Books I–IV, ed. and trans. Robert W. Ulery Jr. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 357. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by James S. Grubb HEINZ SCHILLING. Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism. Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England, 2008. Pp. ix, 124. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter H. Wilson PAULA SUTTER FICHTNER. Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850. London: Reakdon Books, 2008; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 205. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Derek Beales LAURA E. MATTHEW and MICHEL R. OUDIJK, eds. Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 349. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Christon I. Archer TONY CLAYDON. Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 370. $36.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Brendan Simms JOHN GRENIER. The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 270. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John G. Reid PHILLIP BUCKNER, ed. Canada and the British Empire. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 294. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Barbara J. Messamore LAIRD W. BERGAD. The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 314. $22.99 (US) paper. Reviewed by Luis A. González CHRISTOPHER L. MILLER. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 571. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen GABRIEL B. PAQUETTE. Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and Its Empire, 1759–1808. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; dist. Bolton, ON: H. B. Fenn. Pp. xi, 244. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna USSAMA MAKDISI. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 262. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugh Goddard MARY GRIBBIN and JOHN GRIBBIN. Flower Hunters. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 332. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie HELMUT WALSER SMITH. The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. vii, 246. $22.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stefan Berger JAMES ONLEY. The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxv, 352. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. Blyth HEINZ DUCHHARDT, ed. Stein: Die sädten Jahre des preuβischen Reformers, 1815–1831. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. Pp. x, 214. €29.90. Reviewed by William D. Godsey CIRO PAOLETTI. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xiv, 269. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John Gooch ALFONSO SCIROCCO. Garibaldi, Citizen of the World: A Biography, trans. Allan Cameron. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 442. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Laven CHRISTOPHER HERBERT. War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 334. $35.00 (US); MILES OGBORN. Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 318. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers WILLIAM BEINART and LOTTE HUGHES. Environment and Empire. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 395. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Vaclav Smil WILLIAM J. HAUSMAN, PETER HERTNER, and MIRA WILKINS. Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 487. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Barry Eichengreen LORNA LLOYD. Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xix,353. €129.00. Reviewed by John W. Young NANCY M. WINGFIELD. Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 353. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Melissa Feinberg DAVID S. FOGLESONG. The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire’: The Crusade for a ‘Free Russia’ since 1881. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp- x, 352- $34.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman Saul XU GUOQI. Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 377. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Allen Guttmann AIMS MCGUINNESS. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 249. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Conniff EUGENE SECUNDA and TERENCE P. MORAN. Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. Pp. 231. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Nancy Snow D. J. WALKER. Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. 158. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Catherine Davies DAVID SUNDERLAND. Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914–74. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2007. Pp. 296. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Sarah Stockwell MARTIN THOMAS. Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 428. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John Ferris MARK VON HAGEN. War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918. Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 122. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by David M. Marples MITCHELL A. YOCKELSON. Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 308. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David French JONATHAN REED WINKLER. Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 347. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen JOAN HOFF. A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. v, 308. $24.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich MIKLOS ZEIDLER. Ideas on Territorial Revision in Hungary, 1920–1945, trans. Thomas J. and Helen DeKornfeld. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs and Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies, 2007; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 440. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig JERZY BORZECKI. The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921i and the Creation of Interwar Europe. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 401. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley RASHID KHALIDI. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007. Pp. xlii, 281. £16.99. Reviewed by MAry C. Wilson MAREK KORNAT. Polityka Rownowagi, 1934–1939: Polska miedzy Wschodem a Zachodem. Cracow: Wydawnictwo Arcana, 2007. Pp. 499. 35zl. Reviewed by Marta Magdalena Stachurska MICHAEL PETROU. Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. xxii, 282. $85.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Patrick H. Brennan CHRISTINA TWOMEY. Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 262. $31.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bob Moore DAVID A. MESSENGER. L'Espagne Republicaine: French Policy and Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 196. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by Martin Thomas YUMA TOTANI. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard Asia Research Center, 2008; dist. Harvard University Press. Pp. xiv, 335. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Janice Matsumura SIMEI QING. From Allies to Enemies: Visions of Modernity, Identity, and US-China Diplomacy, 1945–196o. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 396. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles W. Hayford PATRICK KLEEDEHN. Die Rückkehr auf den Weltmarkt: Die Internationalisierung der Bayer AG Leverkusen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Jahre 1961. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 385. €50.00, paper. Reviewed by Raymond G. Stokes IRA CHERNUS. Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 307. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Seth Jacobs LORENZ M. LÜTHI. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 375. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gilbert Rozman P. R. CHARI, PERVAIZ IQBAL CHEEMA, and STEPHEN P. COHEN. Four Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2008. Pp. x, 252. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Sumit Ganguly GARY R. HESS. Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009. Pp. xii, 218. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young SCOTT KAUFMAN. Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. Pp. 298. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by Nancy Mitchell DONALD J. SAVOIE. Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 441. $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by John Redwood ANDREAS HERBERG-ROTHE. Clausewitz's Puzzle: The Political Theory of War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 194. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Antulio J. Echevarria II GORDON A. CRAIG. Tact and Intelligence: Essays on Diplomatic History and International Relations, ed. Bruce Thompson, Carolyn Halladay, and Donald Abenheim. Palo Alto, CA: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2008; dist. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Pp. xvi, 342. $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Roger Chickering
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