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Reviews of Books

2009; Routledge; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07075332.2009.9641175

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Konrad Hirschler, Jonathan R. Smith, Jonathan Israël, Eric Van Young, N. A. M. Rodger, Stanley G. Payne, Philip Dwyer, Mark A. Burkholder, Anthony Adamthwaite, Andrew Preston, Bob Harris, H. W. Brands, H. V. Nelles, F. R. Bridge, Michael Adas, Donald Reid, Michael Obst, Bettina Beer, Reinhard Wendt, Alan P. Dobson, Akira Iriye, Michaël Geyer, Patrick H. rennan, Peter Simkins, Peter Krüger, Edward B. Westermann, Patrice Higonnet, Timothy Snyder, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Norman J. W. Goda, Donald Reid, Philip Murphy, Jessica C. E. Gienow‐Hecht, Anders Stephanson, David McLean, Jorge I. Domínguez, Jens Gieseke, Beverly Lemire, Bart Dessein, Roland Popp, Alan Nadel, John Kent, Robert Holland, George H. Quester, Ronald D. Asmus, Stephen C. Waring, Jeremy Adelman, Scott A. Silverstone, Richard A. Matthew, Thorsten Borring Olesen, Daniel H. Nexon, John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, James Lee Ray,

Scottish History and National Identity

HANNES MÖHRING. Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, 1138–1193, trans. David S. Bachrach. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 113. $20.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Konrad Hlrschler SIMON PHILLIPS. The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 210. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN. The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture, and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567–1659. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xvi, 406. €139.00. Reviewed by Jonathan Israel MARCY NORTON. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 334. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Eric Van Young PAUL KLÉBER MONOD. Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its Empire, 1660–1837. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xiv, 429. $44.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by N. A. M. Rodger GARETH STOCKEY. Gibraltar: ‘A Dagger in the Spine of Spain?’. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 304. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley G. Payne OLAF JESSEN. ‘Preuβens Napoleon?’, Ernst von Rüchel, 1754–1823: Krieg im Zeitalter der Venunft. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2007. Pp. 490. €39.90. Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer ADRIAN J. PEARCE. British Trade with Spanish America, 1763–1808. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2008; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxxviii, 320. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder KATHLEEN BURK. Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 797. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite GEORGE C. HERRING. From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations since 1776. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 1,035. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Preston TROY BICKHAM. Making Headlines: The American Revolution as Seen through the British Press. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 303. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by Bob Harris FRANK PROCHASKA. The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 239. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by H.W. Brands JASON KAUFMAN. The Origins of Canadian and American Political Differences. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 368. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by H. V. Nelles MARKUS MÖSSLANG and TORSTEN RIOTTE, eds. The Diplomats' World: A Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815–1914. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 476. $140.00 (US). Reviewed by F. R. Bridge A. DIRK MOSES, ed. Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. x, 491. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Adas HEATHER J. SHARKEY. American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 318. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Donald Malcolm REID WINFRIED BAUMGART, ed. Die amwärtige Politik Preuβens, 1858–1871: Diplomatische Aktenstücke: Zweite Abteilung: Vom Amtsantritt Bismarcks bis zum Prager Frieden: Band VII der Gesamtreihe: April bis August 1866. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008. Pp. 675. €58.00, paper. Reviewed by Michael A. Obst RAINER F. BUSCHMANN. Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, l870–1935. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2009. Pp. x, 234. $55-00 (US). Reviewed by Bettina Beer ANDREA FRANC. Wie die Schweiz zur Schokolade kam: Der Kakaohandel der Basler Handelsgesellschaft mit der Kolonie Goldküste (1893–1960). Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2008. Pp. 297. €33.50, paper. Reviewed by Reinhard Wendt STUART BANNER. Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 353. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan Dobson ERIK ESSELSTROM. Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 233. $59-00 (US). Reviewed by Akira Iriye SUSANNE MICHL. Im Dienste des ‘Volhskörpers’: Deutsche und französische Änte im Ersten Weltkrieg. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. Pp. 307. €39.90, paper. Reviewed by Michael Geyer ANDREW IAROCCI. Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914–1915. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 362. dollar;50.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Patrick H. Brennan ALEXANDER WATSON. Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale, and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 288. $99.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Simkins RALPH BLESSING. Der mögliche Frieden: Die Modernisierung der Auβenpolitik und die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen, 1923–1929. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008. Pp. 507. €59.80. Reviewed by Peter Krüger KONRAD H. JARAUSCH and KLAUS JOCHEN ARNOLD, eds. ‘Das stille Sterben...’ Feldpostbriefe von Konrad Farausch aus Polen und Russland, 1939–1942. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2008. Pp. 387. €34.90. Reviewed by Edward B. Westermann ALLAN MITCHELL. Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940–1944. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. xiv, 230. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Patrice Higonnet BARBARA EPSTEIN. The Minsk Ghetto, 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 351. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy Snyder RAINER F. SCHMIDT. Der Zweite Weltkrieg: Die Zerstörung Europas. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburg Verlag, 2008. Pp. 208. €19.90. Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg GERALD STEINACHER. Nazis aufder Flucht: Wie Kriegsverbrecher über Italien nach Übersee entkamen. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2008. Pp. 380. €29.90. Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda FREDERIC SPOTTS. The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. 283. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid PETER CLARKE. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire. London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 559. $49.00 (CDN); MARTIN SHIPWAY. Decolonization and Its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xi, 269. $36.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Philip Murphy JENNIFER FAY. Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany. Minneapolis, MN and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. xxx, 228. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht LAURA A. BELMONTE. Selling the American Way: US Propaganda and the Cold War. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 255. $47.50 (US); NICHOLAS J. CULL. The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxv, 533. $125.00 (US). Reviewed by Anders Stephanson ROBIN GERSTER. Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan. Melbourne: Scribe, 2008. Pp. 327. $49.95 (AUS). REVIEWED BY David Mclean JANA K. LIPMAN. Guantánamo: A Working-Glass History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. x, 325. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jorge I. Domínguez KRISTIE MACRAKIS. Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 370. $28.00 (US). Reviewed by Jens Gieseke REGINA LEE BLASZCZYK, ed. Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. vii, 363. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Beverly Lemire M. TAYLOR FRAVEL. Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 376. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bart Dessein YAACOV RO'I and BORIS MOROZOV, eds. The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 366. $60.00 (US); MOSHE SHEMESH. Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism, and the Six Day War: The Crystallization of Arab Strategy and Nasir's Descent to War, 1957–1967. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xxi, 345. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Roland Popp TONY SHAW. Hollywood's Cold War. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. Pp. x, 342. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Alan Nadel ELIZABETH SCHMIDT. Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 310. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Kent JAN ASMUSSEN. Cyprus at War: Diplomacy and Conflict during the 1974 Crisis. London and New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2008. Pp. ix, 364. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Holland ETEL SOLINGEN. Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 406. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by George H. Quester HAL BRANDS. From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Pp. vii, 416. $45.00 (US); RAJAN MENON. The End of Alliances. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 258. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald D. Asmus MIKE MOORE. Twilight War: The Folly of US Space Dominance. Oakland CA: The Independent Institute, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 391. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen P. Waring STEPHAN HAGGARD and ROBERT R. KAUFMAN. Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvi, 473. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Adelman STEPHEN G. BROOKS and WILLIAM C. WOHLFORTH. World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 226. $22.95 (US), paper; MICHAEL W. DOYLE. Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict, ed. and intro., Stephen Macedo. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 175. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Scott A. Silverstone ROBERT F. DURANT. The Greening of the US Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 298. $38.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Richard Matthew GEORG KREIS, ed. Antiamerikanismus: Zum europäisch-amerikanischen Verhältnis zwischen Ablehnung und Faszination. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2007. Pp. 126. €17.00, paper. Reviewed by Thorsten B. Olesen PHILIP G. ROEDER. Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 417. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Daniel H. Nexon T. V. PAUL. The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons. Stanford, CA: Stanford Security Studies, 2009. Pp. viii, 319. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Baylis RISA A. BROOKS. Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 315. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James J. Wirtz FIONA MCGILLIVRAY and ALASTAIR SMITH. Punishing the Prince: A Theory of Interstate Relations, Political Institutions, and Leader Change. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 218. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Lee Ray