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Reviews of Books

2002; Routledge; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07075332.2002.9640977

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Andrew Sherratt, David A. Graff, Arthur M. Eckstein, Donald Crummey, Paul Stephenson, Timothy Reuter, Jeremy Black, Robert E. Jones, Peter Marshall, Derek Massarella, K. David Milobar, Glyndwr Williams, C. I. Hamilton, Marguerite Van Die, Norman Etherington, Catherine Hall, Roger Sarty, Paul Dukes, Michael Schmid, Geoffrey Bolton, Dorothy Figueira, Ralph A. Austen, Robert J. T. Joy, Rana Mitter, William L. Cleveland, David French, Michael Jabara Carley, Jeremy King, Alan Sharp, Peter D. Stachura, Michael Fry, Gill Bennett, Robert Freeman Smith, Eileen P. Scully, William L. Patch, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Leonard Dinnerstein, Tim Harrison Place, Wayne H. Bowen, Conrad C. Crane, Wesley T. Wooley, Petra Goedde, Erich J. Hahn, James Sperling, John Gillingham, Peter L. Hahn, Kent Buse, Cary Fraser, H. W. Brands, Mary C. Wilson, Qiang Zhai, Marc Gallicchio, Warren I. Cohen, Michael J. Cohen, Bruce Muirhead, Jeffrey G. Giauque, William I. Hitchcock, Jonathan Rosenberg, A. R. Disney, Richard S. Grossman, Matthias Schulz, Andrew J. Rotter, Charles E. Neu, G. Hensley, Donald Denoon, Anne Deighton, David Zweig, Mary Ann Heiss, Charles D. Smith, Judith P. Zinsser, David P. Calleo, S. A. M. Adshead, Jacob Bercovitch, Dorothy V. Jones,

Historical and Archaeological Studies

Barry Cunliffe. Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples, 8000 BC-AD 1500. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 600. $56.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Andrew Sherratt Charles Holcombe. The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC-AD 907. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 332. $24.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by David A. Graff J. H. C. Williams. Beyond the Rubicon: Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 264. $106.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein Wilhelm Baum. Äthiopien und der Westen im Mittelalter: Die Selbstbehauptung der christlichen Kultur am oberen Nil zwischen dem islamischen Orient und dem europàischen Kolonialismus. Klagenfurt: Verlag Kitab, 2001. Pp. 280. €25.00, paper. Reviewed by Donald Crummey Florin Curta. The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxv, 463. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Stephenson Uta-Renate Blumenthal. Gregor VII: Papst zwischen Canossa und Kirchenreform. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2001. Pp. xiii, 376. €29.90. Reviewed by Timothy Reuter MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 203. $27.95 (US); Stig Förster, Markus Pöhlmann, and Dierk Walter, eds. Schlachten der Weltgeschichte: Von Salamis bis Sinai. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2001. Pp. 414. €24.90. Reviewed by Jeremy Black Richard Butterwick, ed. The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500–1795. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xix, 249. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert E. Jones Jos Gommans, Lennart Bes, and Gus Kruijtzer. Dutch Sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825: I: Bibliography and Archival Guide to the National Archives at The Hague (The Netherlands). New Delhi: Manohar, 2001. Pp. 424. Rs 750. Reviewed by P.J.Marshall Reinier H. Hesselink. Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Diplomacy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 215. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Derek Massarella Geoffrey Plank. An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 239. $45.95 (CDN). Reviewed by K. David Milobar Bruny D'Entrecasteaux. Voyage to Australia and the Pacific, 1791–1793, ed. and trans. Edward Duyker and Maryse Duyker. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xliii, 392. $59.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Glyndwr Williams Lawrence Sondhaus. Naval Warfare, 1815–1914. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. viii, 263. $85.00 (US), cloth; $25.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton J. I. Little, ed. Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833–1836. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 229. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Marguerite van Die Alan Lester. Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. x, 257. $16.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman Etherington Peter H. Hoffenberg. An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 418. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Catherine Hall E. A. Porcher. A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest: E. A. Porcher and HMS Sparrowhawk, 1865–1868, ed. and annotated Dwight L. Smith. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 172. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Roger Sarty David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 239. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Dukes David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon HI, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 244. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Schmid Colin Dyer, ed. and trans. A Frenchman's Walk across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's Diary, Perth to Brisbane, 1897–1899. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xii, 195. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Bolton Kamakshi P. Murti. India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. 149. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Dorothy Figueira Chris Youé and Tim Stapleton, eds. Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays for John E. Flint. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 219. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen Ben Shephard. A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 487. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. T. Joy Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 522. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Rana Mitter Rosemary O'brien, ed. Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913–1914. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 258. $29.95 (US)- Reviewed by William L. Cleveland Gary Sheffield. Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities. London: Headline, 2001. Pp. xix, 298. £20.00. Reviewed by David French Norman E. Saul. War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xx, 483. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley John C. Swanson. The Remnants of the Habsburg Monarchy: The Shaping of Modern Austria and Hungary, 1918–1922. Boulder: East European Monographs, 2001; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. vii, 391. $32.00 (US). Reviewed by Jeremy King David Dutton, ed. Paris 1918: The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. xxxvi, 348. $69.95 (vs)i cloth; $28.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Alan Sharp Silke Neunsinger. Die Arbeit der Frauen - aie Krise der Manner: Die Erwerbstatigkeit verheirateter Frauen in Deutschland und Schweden 1919–1939. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2001. Pp. 294. Full text can be downloaded from http://publications.uu.se/theses/fulltext/91-554-5088-1.pdf Reviewed by Peter D. Stachura Antony Lentin. Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler, 1919–1940. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvii, 182. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry Michael Dockrill and John Fisher, eds. The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Peace without Victory? Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 197. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by G. H. Bennett David F. Schmitz. Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 222. $17.95 (US). paper; Margot Louria. Triumph and Downfall: America's Pursuit of Peace and Prosperity, 1921–1933. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 267. $62.50 (US). Reviewed by Robert Freeman Smith Izumi Hirobe. Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 327. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Eileen P. Scully Michael Wala. Weimar und Amerika: Botschafter Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von 1927 bis 1933. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 341. €38.00. Reviewed by William Patch István Deák. Essays on Hitler's Europe. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 222. $24.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg Bat-Ami Zucker. In Search of Refuge: Jews and US Consuls in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xiv, 229. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Leonard Dinnerstein Russell A. Hart. Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001. Pp. xviii, 469. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Tim Harrison Place Christian Leitz. Sympathy for the Devil: Neutral Europe and Nazi Germany in World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. 213. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Wayne H. Bowen Henry Probert. Bomber Harris: His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur Harris, the Wartime Chief of Bomber Command. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. 432. £25.00. Reviewed by Conrad C. Crane Greg Robinson. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 322. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley John Willoughby. Remaking the Conquering Heroes: Post-War American Occupation of Germany. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiii, 187. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Petra Goedde Frank Schumacher. Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: Die USA, der Kampfum die Weltmeinung und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945–1955. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2000. Pp. 332. €33.00, paper. Reviewed by Erich J. Hahn Mark Smith. NATO Enlargement during the Cold War: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. x, 207. $65.00 (US); Ekavi Athanassopoulou. Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945–1952: The First Enlargement of NATO. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. xiii, 274. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Ames Sperling Mary Fulbrook, ed. Europe since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 324. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John Gillingham Melani McAlister. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East, 1945–2000. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 358. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter L. Hahn Paul Schneeberger. Der schwierige Umgang mit dem Anschluss: Die Rezeption in Geschichtsdarstellungen, 1946–1995. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2000. Pp. 568. €52.00, paper. Reviewed by Dieter K. Buse David D. Newsom. The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third World. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 241 $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Cary Fraser Dennis Kux. The United States and Pakistan, 1947–2000: Disenchanted Allies. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press; Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 470. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by H. W. Brands Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 234. $54.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Mary C. Wilson Chen Jian. Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 400. $32.95 (CDN), paper; Shu Guang Zhang. Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963. Stanford: Stanford University Press; Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 375. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Qiang Zhai Victor S. Kaufman. Confronting Communism: US and British Policies toward China. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 269. $57.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Marc Gallicchio Gary R. Hess. Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 262. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen David Tal, ed. The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. ix, 234. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen Greg Donaghy, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: XXII: 1956–1957 Part I. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2001. Pp. liv, 1,469. $99.95 (CDN). Reviewed by B. W. Muirhead Rolf Steininger. Der Mauerbau: Die Westmàchte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise, 1958–1963. Munich: Olzog Verlag, 2001. Pp. 411. €18.50, paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Giauque Frédéric Bozo. TWO Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance, trans. Susan Emanuel. Lanham: Rowman & Litdefield, 2001. Pp. xx, 275. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William I. Hitchcock Annabel Jane Wharton. Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 249- $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Rosenberg Dauril Alden. Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life: Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller. Lisbon: Fundaçáo Oriente, 2001. Pp. 616. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Anthony Disney Michael D. Gambone. Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xiv, 274. $69.95 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Richard Grossman Wilfried Loth, ed. Crises and Compromises: The European Project, 1963–1969. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001. Pp. 575. €91.00, paper. Reviewed by Matthias Schulz H. Bruce Franklin. Vietnam and Other American Fantasies. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 256. $28.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Rotter George W. Allen. None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Pp. xiv, 296. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Charles E. Neu F. S. Aijazuddin. From a Head, through a Head, to a Head: The Secret Channel between the US and China through Pakistan. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 163. Rs 395. Reviewed by Gerald Hensley Robert Borofsky, ed. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 557. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Donald Denoon Maria Green Cowles, James Caporaso, and Thomas Risse, eds. Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 272. $19.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Anne Deighton David M. Lampton. Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing US-China Relations, 1989–2000. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 497- $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Zweig Stephen Pelletière. Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xi, 239. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Mary Ann Heiss Fred Halliday. Nation and Religion in the Middle East. London: Saqi Books, 2000. Pp. 251. £29.50, cloth; £16.95, paper. Reviewed by Charles D. Smith Patricia Grimshaw, Katie Holmes, and Marilyn Lake, eds. Women's Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xxi, 318. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Judith P. Zinsser Ernst B. Haas. Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: II: The Dismal Fate of New Nations. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 466. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by David P. Calleo Peter N. Stearns. Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xi, 147. $10.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by S. A. M. Adshead Kristen P. Williams. Despite Nationalist Conflicts: Theory and Practice of Maintaining World Peace. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. viii, 214. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jacob Bercovitch Ward Thomas. The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 222. $16.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Dorothy V. Jones