Reviews of Books
2001; Routledge; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.2001.9640936
ISSN1949-6540
AutoresE. G. Pulleyblank, Richard Hodges, Peter Stewart, Zofia Halina Archibald, Arthur M. Eckstein, David Wright, Uta‐Renate Blumenthal, Bernard Hamilton, Nick Barratt, Hilmar Μ. Pabel, Kendall W. Brown, Peter Pierson, Herman Prins Salomon, Christon I. Archer, Jane Ohlmeyer, Paola Bianchi, Susan Naquin, Ira M. Lapidus, William T. Rowe, Caroline Finkel, Teresita Martínez Vergne, Keith Jeffery, Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, David Bushnell, Eduardo Posada-Carbó, John K. Severn, Milan Vego, Paul Kennedy, Kent Fedorowich, Douglas A. Lorimer, Paul M. Canning, Reinhard R. Doerries, Sheldon Watts, T. E. Vadney, William B. Cohen, Efraim Karsh, H. James Burgwyn, Thomas W. Burkman, Andrew J. Crozier, Carole Fink, Roger Owen, Christopher Bell, Alan Cassels, R. J. B. Bosworth, Neville Thompson, Joseph A. Biesinger, Earl F. Ziemke, D. W. Spring, Jacob Rosenberg, Dennis E. Showalter, Carl Boyd, Mechthild Leutner, Kriste Lindenmeyer, Mats Berdal, Frank Ninkovich, T. Michael Ruddy, Albert Lau, Jeffrey Glauque, Ilаn Pappé, M. W. Daly, Lloyd C. Gardner, Julia Nanay, Peter Wilson, David D. Newsom, Andreas Fahrmeir, Cathal J. Nolan,
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ResumoMICHAEL LOEWE and EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxix, 1,148. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Edwin G. Pulleyblank PEREGRINE HORDEN and NICHOLAS PURCELL. The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford and Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. xiii, 761. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Richard Hodges JOHN ONIANS. Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii,306. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Stewart GRAHAM SHIPLEY. The Greek World after Alexander, 323–30 BC. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xxxi, 568. $29.99 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Zofia H. Archibald MICHAEL GRANT. The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xviii, 121. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein SVAT SOUCEK. A History of Inner Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 369. $64.95 (US), cloth; $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David C. Wright I. S. ROBINSON. Henry IV of Germany, 1056–1106. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 408. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Uta-Renate Blumenthal WILHELM BAUM. Die Verwandlungen des Mythos vom Reich des Priesterkönigs Johannes: Rom, Byzanz und die Christen des Orients im Mittelalter. Klagenfurt: Tangenten, Verlag Kitab, 1999. Pp. 438. DM 42.00, paper. Reviewed by Bernard Hamilton JOHN GILLINGHAM. Richard I. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 378. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Nick Barratt JOHN W. O'MALLEY. Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 219. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Hilmar Pabel KATHRYN BURNS. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 307. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kendall W. Brown PAUL C. ALLEN. Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598–1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 335. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter O. Pierson DANIEL M. SWETSCHINSKI. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 380. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Herman Prins Salomon ENRIQUETA VILA VILAR and ALLAN J. KUETHE, eds. Relaciones de Poder y Comercio Colonial: Nuevas Perspectivas. Seville: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, and Lubbock: Texas Tech University, 1999. Pp. xv, 304. PTA. 2,500. Reviewed by Christon I. Archer FREDERICK QUINN. The French Overseas Empire. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xx, 292. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by A. S. Kanya-Forstner JAMES SCOTT WHEELER. Cromwell in Ireland. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. x, 305. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Jane Ohlmeyer CHRISTOPHER STORRS. War, Diplomacy, and the Rise of Savoy, 1690–1720. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 345. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Paola Bianchi PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 403. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Susan Naquin EDHEM ELDEM, DANIEL GOFFMAN, and BRUCE MASTERS. The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 244. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Ira M. Lapidus KENNETH POMERANZ. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 382. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by William T. Rowe ERIK J. ZÜRCHER, ed. Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775–1925. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. 168. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Caroline Finkel DORIS Y. KADISH, ed. Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 247. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Teresita Martínez Vergne GEOFFREY WAWRO. Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792–1914. London and New York: Roudedge, 2000. Pp. x, 246. $25.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Keith Jeffery KEVIN WARD and BRIAN STANLEY, eds. The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799–1999. Grand Rapids and Richmond, UK: William B. Eerdmans and Curzon, 2000. Pp. xviii, 382. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Gerald Studdert-Kennedy REBECCA A. EARLE. Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1810–1825. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 254. £37.50. Reviewed by David Bushnell FERNANDO LÓPEZ-ALVES. State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810–1900. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 295. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eduardo Posada-Carbó C. M. WOOLGAR, ed. Wellington Studies II. Southampton: Hartley Institute, University of Southampton, 1999. Pp. ix, 252. £7.50, paper; C. M. WOOLGAR, ed. Wellington Studies III. Southampton: Hardey Institute, University of Southampton, 1999. Pp. x, 300. £7.50, paper. Reviewed by John K. Severn LUDWIG RITTER VON HÖHNEL. Over Land and Sea: Memoir of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857–1909, ed. Ronald E. Coons and Pascal James Imperato; consulting ed. J. Winthrop Aldrich. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 358. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Milan Vego SCOTT W. MURRAY. Liberal Diplomacy and German Unification: The Early Career of Robert Morier. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xxii, 277. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Kennedy ANDREW S. THOMPSON. Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880–1932. London and New York: Longman, 2000. Pp. xvii, 219. $79.95 (US), cloth; $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kent Fedorowich SHOMPA LAHIRI. Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race, and Identity, 1880–1930. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xviii, 249. $59.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper.Reviewed by Douglas A. Lorimer ROY BRIDGES, ed. Imperialism, Decolonization, and Africa: Studies Presented to John Hargreaves: With an Academic Memoir and Bibliography. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xv, 213. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul M. Canning NANCY MITCHELL. The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xi, 312. $82.50 (CDN), cloth; $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Reinhard R. Doerries PAUL JULIAN WEINDLING. Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 463. $159.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Sheldon Watts J. M. ROBERTS. Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 905. £20.00. Reviewed by T. E. Vadney MOSHE GERSHOVICH. French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and Its Consequences. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xvii, 238. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by William B. Cohen M. NAIM TURFAN. Rise of the Young Turks: Politics, the Military, and Ottoman Collapse. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xix, 490. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Efraim Karsh DANIELA ROSSINI. Il mito americano nell'Italia delta Grande Guerra. Rome: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2000. Pp. x, 284. L 50,000, paper. Reviewed by H. James Burgwyn FREDERICK R. DICKINSON. War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999; dist. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press. Pp. xviii, 363. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas W. Burkman ALFRED C. MIERZEJEWSKI. The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway. I: 1920–1932. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xx, 482. $123.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier CHRISTIAN RAITZ VON FRENTZ. A Lesson Forgotten: Minority Protection under the League of Nations: The Case of the German Minority in Poland, 1920–1934. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. iii, 290. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Carole K. Fink MEIR ZAMIR. Lebanon's Quest: The Road to Statehood, 1926–1939. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xii, 313. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Roger Owen JOHN WINTON. Cunningham: The Greatest Admiral since Nelson. London: John Murray, 1998. Pp. xiv, 432. £25.00; MICHAEL SIMPSON, ed. The Cunningham Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, OM, KT, GCB, DSO and Two Bars: I: The Mediterranean Fleet, 1939–1942. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. xxvii, 634. $113.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher M. Bell RAY MOSELEY. Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 302. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan Cassels MACGREGOR KNOX. Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 262. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth PETER NEVILLE. Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937–39. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xv, 237. $69.95 (US); JOHN RUGGIERO. Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice, and Politics. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. 251. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Neville Thompson JOHN CORNWELL. Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. London: Viking, 1999. Pp. xi, 430. £20.00. Reviewed by Joseph A. Biesinger GEOFFREY P. MEGARGEE. Inside Hitler's High Command. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xxi, 327. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Earl F. Ziemke GABRIEL GORODETSKY. Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 408. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by D. W. Spring AZZA SALAMA LAYTON. International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941–1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 217. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Rosenberg WILLIAMSON MURRAY and ALLAN R. MILLETT. A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 656. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter RICHARD J. ALDRICH. Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America, and the Politics of Secret Service. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 500. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Carl Boyd JOSHUA A. FOGEL, ed. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 248. $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Mechthild Leutner EMMY E. WERNER. Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 271. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Kriste Lindenmeyer OLAV RISTE. The Norwegian Intelligence Service, 1945–1970, trans. Arnfinn Moland. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. xvii, 315. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Mats Berdal NORMAN FRIEDMAN. The Fifty-Tear War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000; dist. St Catharines: Vanwell. Pp. xvii, 597. $38.95 (US). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich GREGORY MITROVICH. Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 235. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by T. Michael Ruddy T. N. HARPER. The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 417. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Albert Lau CONSTANTINE A. PAGEDAS. Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960–1963: A Troubled Partnership. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xviii, 308. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Jeffrey Glauque ZAKI SHALOM. The Superpowers, Israel, and the Future of Jordan, 1960-1963: The Perils of the Pro-Nasser Policy. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 181. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ilan PappÉ J. MILLARD BURR and ROBERT O. COLLINS. Africa's Thirty Years War: Libya, Chad, and the Sudan, 1963–1993. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 300. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by M. W. Daly DAVID KAISER. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 566. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner MICHAEL P. CROISSANT and BULENT ARAS, eds. Oil and Geopolitics in the Caspian Sea Region. Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xx, 305. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Julia Nanay ANDREW WILLIAMS. Failed Imagination? New World Orders of the Twentieth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. 324. $79.95 (US), cloth; $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Wilson JAN MELISSEN, ed. Innovation in Diplomatic Practice. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 267. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by David D. Newsom JOHN TORPEY. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 211. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Andreas Fahrmeir BERNARD I. FINEL and KRISTIN M. LORD, eds. Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. 371. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Cathal J. Nolan
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