Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Reviews of Books

2004; Routledge; Volume: 26; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07075332.2004.9641047

1949-6540

Kenneth G. Holum, Alexander Callander Murray, Felice Lifshitz, David O. Morgan, Heidrun Kugeler, Marcia Kupfer, Patrick Williams, Yuri Bregel, John Breuilly, Timothy Brook, Dave Gosse, Mark Harrison, Jay R. Berkovitz, J. C. D. Clark, H. V. Bowen, Peter H. Wilson, David Andrew Roberts, Ashley Jackson, István Deák, D. E. Moggridge, Donald Reid, Mark Canuel, Alan Frost, Matt D. Childs, Timothy E. Anna, Richard J. Salvucci, Margaret Lamb, Patricia Clavin, Jürgen Osterhammel, Thomas Munch-Petersen, Bülent Gökay, Anne‐Emanuelle Birn, Geoff Eley, David R. Stone, John M. MacKenzie, Philip M. Taylor, Derek Hopwood, Alan Cassels, Alexander De Grand, Peter Paret, Anthony Adamthwaite, Michael Schaller, J. H. Straczek, Lucy Noakes, Bruce Kurlick, C. Earl Edmondson, Beatrice S. Bartlett, James Jankowski, Robert G. Wirsing, Sandra Penrose, Peter Edwards, Tore T. Petersen, Nicholas White, Marilyn B. Young, Kenneth Lunn, Scott Lucas, Robert M. Hayden, Douglas Torgerson, Alfred E. Eckes, Lawrence Aronsen, Terry Copp, Thomas U. Berger, Michael Tsin, Marnie Hughes‐Warrington, Harold James,

Historical and Linguistic Studies

ERICH S. GRUEN. Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 386. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth G. Holum ARNE SØBY CHRISTENSEN. Cassiodorus Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xi, 391. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by Alexander Callander Murray BONNIE WHEELER and JOHN CARMI PARSONS, eds. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxix, 506. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Felice Lifshitz PAUL D. BUELL. Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire. Lanham and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003. Pp. xliv, 335. $80.00 (us). Reviewed by David O. Morgan DIETER BERG, MARTIN KINTZINGER, and PIERRE MONNET, eds. Auswärtige Politik und internationale Beziehungen im Mittelalter (13. bis 16. Jahrhundert). Bochum: Verlag Dr Dieter Winkler, 2002. Pp. 438. 61.50, paper. Reviewed by Heidrun Kugeler DAVID BUISSERET. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 227. $54.00 (CDN).Reviewed by Marcia Kupfer HENRY KAMEN. Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492-1763. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 608. $49.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Patrick Williams MANSURA HAIDAR. Central Asia in the Sixteenth Century. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. Pp. 404. INR 875. Reviewed by Yuri Bregel ANTHONY W. MARX. Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 258. $41.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John Breuilly WILLARDJ. PETERSON, ed. The Cambridge History of China: IX: Part One: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 753. $140.00 (us). Reviewed by Timothy Brook ERIK GØBEL. A Guide to Sources for the History of the Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands), 1671-1917. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. 349. $27.00 (us). Reviewed by Dave Gosse ANDREA A. RUSNOCK. Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 249. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark Harrison RONALD SCHECHTER. Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 331. $60.00 (us). Reviewed by Jay R. Berkovitz NIGEL ASTON. Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 379. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark ALAN FROST. The Global Reach of Empire: Britain's Maritime Expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, 1764-1815. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2003; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xiv, 383. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by H. V. Bowen MICHAEL ROWE. From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 331. $65.00 (us); LOTHAR KiTTSTEiN. Politik im Zeitalter der Revolution: Untersuchungen zur preufiischen Staatlichkeit, 1792-1807. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 692. 76.00. Reviewed by Peter H. Wilson JOHN CONNOR. The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838. Sydney: University of New Soudi Wales Press, 2002; dist. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. xii, 175. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by David Andrew Roberts COLIN NEWBURY. Patrons, Clients, and Empire: Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $72.00 (us). Reviewed by Ashley Jackson IVAN T. BEREND. History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 330. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by ISTVÁN DEÁK ERIC HELLEINER. The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 277. $29.95 (us); DANIEL VERDIER. Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrialized World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 311. $24.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by D. E. Moggridge DAVID JEFFREYS, ed. Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Modern Appropriations. London and Pordand: UCL Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 223. $47.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid INA FERRIS. The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 205. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark Canuel PAMELA STATHAM-DREW. James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2003; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. xiv, 655. $53.93 (us). Reviewed by Alan Frost JOSEPH C. DORSEY. Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 311. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Matt D. Childs MARK THURNER and ANDRÉS GUERRERO, eds. After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 357. $22.95 (us), paper Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna MICHAEL P. COSTELOE. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824–1888. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xxii, 259. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci GLENN MELANCON. Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence, and National Honour, 1833–1840. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 158. $59-95 (us). Reviewed by Margaret Lamb ANDREW G. BROWN. Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 254. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Patricia Clavin GEORG LEHNER and MONIKA LEHNER. Österreich-Ungarn und der ‘Boxeraufstand’ in China. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2002. Pp. 739. €43.50, paper. Reviewed by Jürgen Osterhammel OLLI VEHVILAINEN and ATTILA PÓK, eds. Hungary and Finland in the 20th Century, Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp. 201. $24.95 (US), paper; OLLI VEHVILÄINEN. Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia, trans. Gerard McAlester. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. x, 199. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas Munch-Petersen EDWARD J. ERICKSON. Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913.Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xxiv,403. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Bülent Gökay WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER, ed. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 251. $44.95 (us). Reviewed by Anne-Emanuelle Birn MENNO SPIERING and MICHAEL WINTLE, eds. Ideas of Europe since 1914: The Legacy of the First World War. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiii, 208. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Geoff Eley MARY R. HABECK. Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 309. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by David R. Stone LORRAINE COONS and ALEXANDER VARIAS. Tourist Third Cabin: Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxv, 294. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie BENJAMIN L. ALPERS. Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s. Chapel Hill and London: University of Nordi Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 405. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor TIMOTHY J. PARIS. Britain, the Hashemites, and Arab Rule, 1920–1925: The Sherifian Solution. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvi, 391. $64.50 (us). Reviewed by Derek Hopwood ROBERT MALLETT. Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933–1940. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. ix, 266. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Alan Cassels G. BRUCE STRANG. On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xv, 375. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Alexander De Grand RICHARD A. ETLIN, ed. Art, Culture, and Media under the Third Reich. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 384. $25.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Peter Paret JULIAN JACKSON. The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 274. $46.95 (CDN); TALBOT C. IMLAY. Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938–1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 393. $180.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite EMILY S. ROSENBERG. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael Schaeller BRIAN FARRELL and SANDY HUNTER, eds. Sixty Tears On: The Fall of Singapore Revisited. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2002; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp. xvi, 359. $39.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by J. H. Straczek JAMES HINTON. Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 267. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Lucy Noakes GEIR LUNDESTAD. The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From ‘Empire’ by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 331. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Bruce Kuklick ÉVA FODOR. Working Difference: Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 207. $18.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by C. Earl Edmondson ODD ARNE WESTAD. Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946–1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.00 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us): paper. Reviewed by Beatrice S. Bartlett EFRAIM KARSH. Rethinking the Middle East. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. 208. $26.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by James Jankowski SUMANTRA BOSE. Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 307. $25.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert G. Wiring STUART DORAN and DAVID LEE, eds. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1949J–1972. Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 908. $49.95 (AUD), paper; www.dfat.gov.au/historical Reviewed by Sandra Penrose CHRISTOPHER PUGSLEY. From Emergency to Confrontation: The New Zealand Armed Forces in Malaya and Borneo, 1949–1966. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 528. $71.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Peter Edwards MIRIAM JOYCE. Ruling Shaikhs and Her Majesty's Government, 1960–1969. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 157. $62.50 (us). Reviewed by Tore Tingvold Petersen MARC FREY, RONALD W. PRUESSEN, and TAN TAI YONG, eds. The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. Pp. xiv, 358. $27.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Nicholas J. White MICHAEL S. FOLEY. Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xv, 449. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young ERIK BLEICH. Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 233. $65.00 (us), cloth; $23.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Lunn NIGEL J. ASHTON. Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Cold War: The Irony of Interdependence. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiii, 288. $78.00 (us). Reviewed by Scott Lucas LOUIS SELL. Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 430. $21.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Robert M. Hayden JOHN S. DRYZEK, DAVID DOWNES, CHRISTIAN HUNOLD, and DAVID SCHLOSBERG, widi HANS-KRISTIAN HERNES. Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 223. $150.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Douglas Torgerson EUGENIO FIGUEROA B. and BIRGITTA SMITH. Natural Gas across the Andes: A Case Study of an International Business Venture: La Historia de la Primera Guerra del Gas en Sudamérica. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2002. Pp. vi, 302. $20.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes JAMES LAXER. The Border: Canada, the US, and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003. Pp. 387. $37.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen DESMOND MORTON. Understanding Canadian Defence. Toronto: Penguin; Montreal: McGill Institute, 2003. Pp. xiii, 234. $22.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Terry Copp ANTHONY DIFILIPPO. The Challenges of the US-Japan Military Arrangement: Competing Security Transitions in a Changing International Environment. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. x, 260. $72.95 (us), cloth; $29.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Thomas Berger PATRICK JOYCE. The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City. London and New York: Verso, 2003. Pp. xii, 276. $26.00 (us). Reviewed by Michael Tsin PATRICK MANNING. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xiii, 425. $26.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Marnie Hughes-Warrington BARRY EICHENGREEN. Financial Crises and What to Do about Them. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 194. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Harold James