Reviews of Books
2005; Routledge; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.2005.9641055
ISSN1949-6540
AutoresPeter S. Wells, Richard J. A. Talbert, Clive Foss, Geoffrey W. Rice, Nicholas Tarling, Ian N. Wood, David M. Goldfrank, Nicola Di Cosmo, Karl A. Roider, Ronald S. Love, Ian Nish, Roger Mettam, John P. LeDonne, Richard Boyer, David Parrott, Richard Davis, Andrew C. Thompson, Ian C. Campbell, Dane Kennedy, John Lawrence Tone, Sheldon Watts, NORMAN HAMPSON, Glyn Williams, Lester D. Langley, Ann Pottinger Saab, Richard Blanke, Linda Bryder, H. W. Brands, R. J. B. Bosworth, Morris Rossabi, H. Joachim Maître, Daniel Y. K. Kwan, Edward P. Crapol, David S. Foglesong, Lothar Höbelt, Desmond Morton, Parks M. Coble, Bennett Kovrig, A. Hamish Ion, Reinhard R. Doerries, Paul Jankowski, Norman J. W. Goda, Ronald J. Granieri, Kumkum Chatterjee, Frank Ninkovich, A. Martin Wainwright, Nigel Ashton, Bruce Muirhead, William J. Duiker, Andrew Preston, William O. Walker, Frank Tachau, Éva Fodor, Christopher Clapham, David A. Charters, Kathleen Hawk, Andrew J. Bacevich, Colin S. Gray, Robert C. Rubel, T. V. Paul, Walter LaFeber,
Tópico(s)Medieval History and Crusades
ResumoTHOMAS S. BURNS. Rome and the Barbarians, 100 BC-AD 400. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 461. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter S. Wells CATHARINE EDWARDS and GREG WOOLF, eds. Rome the Cosmopolis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 249. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard J. A. Talbert WALTER E. KAEGI. Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Clive Foss ALFRED W. CROSBY. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 368. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey W. Rice DONALD B. FREEMAN. The Straits of Malacca: Gateway or Gauntlet? Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xxix, 249. $55.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling RICHARD BARBER. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 463. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Ian N. Wood MARTIN DIMNIK. The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146–1246. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxxviii, 437. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by David Goldfrank HERBERT FRANKE. Krieg und Krieger im chinesischen Mittelalter (12. bis 14. Jahrhundert): Drei Studien. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 245. €49.00, paper. Reviewed by Nicola Di Cosmo PAULA SUTTER FICHTNER. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490–1848. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 222. $22.95 (US), paper; MICHAEL HOCHEDLINGER. Austria's Wars of Emergency: War, State, and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1683–1797. London and New York: Longman, 2003. Pp. xviii, 466. £24.99, paper. Reviewed by Karl A. Roider MARY ANN LYONS. Franco-Irish Relations, 1500–1610: Politics, Migration, and Trade. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. Pp. xiii, 242. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald S. Love GARY P. LEUPP. Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543–1900. New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. xii, 313. $125.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Nish JEROEN DUINDAM. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550–1780. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 349. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger Mettam MARSHALL T. POE. The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 116. $17.95 (US). Reviewed by John P. LeDonne CAESAR E. FARAH, ed. and trans. An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Travels of Elias al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 117. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard E. Boyer BENNO TESCHKE. The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations. London and New York: Verso, 2003. Pp. xii, 308. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Parrott GLYN WILLIAMS. Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 467. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. Davis EDWARD CORP, with contributions by EDWARD GREGG, HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL, and GEOFFREY SCOTT. A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689–1718. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 386. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew C. Thompson ANNE SALMOND. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 506. $30.00 (US); NICHOLAS THOMAS. Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2003. Pp. xxxvii, 467. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian C. Campbell SANKAR MUTHU. Enlightenment against Empire. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 348. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Dane Kennedy DANIEL MORAN and ARTHUR WALDRON, eds. The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 268. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John Lawrence Tone ALAN MACFARLANE. The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan, and the Malthusian Trap. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxxv, 427. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Sheldon Watts LAURENT DUBOIS. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 357. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman Hampson VICTORIA JOAN MOESSNER, trans. The First Russian Voyage around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern (1803–1806). Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 482. $35.95 (US). Reviewed by Glynn Williams STEVE STRIFFLER and MARK MOBERG, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 364. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lester D. Langley CHRISTOPHER CLARK and WOLFRAM KAISER, eds. Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 368. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Ann Pottinger Saab HEINZ DUCHHARDT and MALGORZATA MORAWIEC, eds. Vision Europa: Deutsche und polnische Föderationspläne des lg. undfrühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2003. Pp. xiv, 137. €24.80. Reviewed by Richard Blanke PHILIPPA LEVINE. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. London and New York: Roudedge, 2003. Pp. ix, 480. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Linda Bryder DAVID PAULL NICKLES. Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 265. $30.95 (US). Reviewed by H. W. Brands PATRIZIA PALUMBO, ed. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 332. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth HODONG KIM. Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 295. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Morris Rossabi GEOFFREY WAWRO. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 327. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by H. Joachim Maitre ANDREW PORTER, ed. The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914. Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Daniel Y. K. Kwan THOMAS SCHOONOVER. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward P. Crapol DAVID C. ENGERMAN. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 399. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by David S. Foglesong GÜNTHER KRONENBITTER. ‘Krieg im Frieden’: Die Führung der k.u.k. Armee und die Groβmachtpolitik Österreichs-Ungarns, 1906–1914. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003. Pp. vii, 579. €79.80. Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt BRITON C. BUSCH, ed. Canada and the Great War: Western Front Association Papers. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 240. $24.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond Morton ROBERT BICKERS. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. 409. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Parks M. Coble TIBOR FRANK, ed and intro. Discussing Hitler: Advisers of US Diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934–1941. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2003. Pp. 374. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig PHILIP SNOW. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 477. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries PHILIP SNOW. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 477. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries DONALD THOMAS. An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers, and Civilians in the Second World War. London: John Murray, 2003. Pp. xv, 429. £20.00. Reviewed by Paul Jankowski REINHARD R. DOERRIES, ed. Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 382. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda GILES SCOTT-SMITH and HANS KRABBENDAM, eds. The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945–1960. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. 335. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ronald J. Grantieri SANDHYA SHUKLA. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 322. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kumkum Chatterjee YALE RICHMOND. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 249. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich LIONEL CARTER, ed. and new intro. Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty, 22 March–15 August, 1947. New Delhi: Manohar, 2003. Pp. 397. Rs 850. Reviewed by A. Martin Wainwright ORNA ALMOG. Britain, Israel, and the United States, 1955–1958: Beyond Suez. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 243. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Nigel J. Ashton MICHAEL D. STEVENSON, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: XXIV: 1957–1958, Part I. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2003. Pp. xlix, 1,377. $119.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Bruce Muirhead HOWARD B. SCHAFFER. Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xiv, 380. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by William J. Duiker JEFFREY KIMBALL. The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xvii, 352. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Preston PETER DALE SCOTT. Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Lanham: Rowman i& Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xix, 225. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by William O. Walker III PHILIP ROBINS. Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy since the Cold War. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 404. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank Tachau RICHARD E. MATLAND and KATHLEEN A. MONTGOMERY, eds. Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 369. $165.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Éva Fodor IKECHI MGBEOJI. Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 186. $80.00 (CDN), cloth; $24.95 (CDN)? paper. Reviewed by Christopher Clapham MARY L. DUDZIAK, ed. September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 240. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by David A. Charters JENNIFER MILLIKEN, ed. State Failure, Collapse, and Reconstruction. Maiden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. x, 325. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kathleen Hawk COLIN S. GRAY. The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xi, 195. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Bacevich EMILY O. GOLDMAN and LESLIE C. ELIASON, eds. The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 415. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Colin S. Gray GEOFFREY TILL. Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2004. Pp. xvi, 430. $27.95 (US), paper; JOHN REEVE and DAVID STEVENS, eds. The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2003. Pp. xx, 363. $39.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Robert C. Rubel STACY BERGSTROM HALDI. Why Wars Widen: A Theory of Prédation and Balancing. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. x, 198. $62.50 (US). Reviewed by T. V. Paul PETER D. FEAVER and CHRISTOPHER GELPI. Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 236. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Walter La Feber
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