Reviews of Books
1999; Routledge; Volume: 21; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.1999.9640876
ISSN1949-6540
AutoresPeter C. Perdue, Stanley M. Burstein, W. J. McCoy, David Braund, John Haldon, P. J. Casey, Stephen Morillo, Matthew Innes, Kenneth Morgan, G. V. Scammell, Geoffrey Parker, Paul Douglas Lockhart, Wyatt MacGaffey, Trevor Burnard, Jane Samson, John A. Lynn, Avigdor Levy, F. B. Smith, John K. Severn, Martha McLaren, Milton Israel, Tim Youngs, John Beeler, Paul Kennedy, David MacKenzie, Roger Owen, Mikael af Malmborg, George Bárány, Jon Tetsuro Sumida, Ian Nish, Catherine R. Schenk, William Stueck, J. F. V. Keiger, Martin Kitchen, David Fromkin, Holger H. Herwig, Paul Halpern, Sherman W. Garnett, Norman E. Saul, Pamela Graves, Robert Freeman Smith, Sally Marks, Lloyd C. Gardner, Allan R. Millett, Jon V. Kofas, Michael Carver, Alfred E. Eckes, Glyn Stone, Margaret Lamb, Samir Saul, Peter Phelps, Nicholas J. White, Alan Powell, Robin Higham, Brian Holden Reid, Jay W. Baird, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Ian C. Campbell, Robert H. Whealey, Peter J. van Baalen, Paul F. Diehl, Serhii Plokhy, William B. Quandt, Ham Avni, Jonathan Lewis, Stephen J. Randall, Andrew Zimbalist, Stephen G. Rabe, Kathleen Burk, Judith M. Brown, Linda Lim, Stephan Haggard, Andrew Moravcsik, As’ad AbuKhalil, Alan S. Milward, Paul W. Schroeder,
ResumoAbstract JEREMY BLACK. Maps and Politics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 188. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue PAUL CARTLEDGE, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 380. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley Burstein DEBRA HAMEL. Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. Pp. xvi, 250. NLG 148. Reviewed by W. J. McCoy DAVID F. GRAF. Rome and the Arabian Frontier: From the Nahataeans to the Saracens. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. xviii, 348. $93.95 (US). Reviewed by David Braund WARREN TREADGOLD. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 1,019. $79.50 (US), cloth; $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Haldon CHRISTOPHER A. SNYDER. An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, AD 400–600. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 403. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by P. J. Casey R. H. C. DAVIS and MARJORIE CHIBNALL, ed. and trans. The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers, with English and Latin parallel text. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xlvii, 199. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Stephen Morillo ANGUS MACKAY and DAVID DITCHBURN, eds. Atlas of Medieval Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. ix, 271. $25.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Matthew Innes HUGH THOMAS. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1870. London: Picador, 1997. Pp. 925. £25.00. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan HARRY KELSEY. Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 566. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell JONATHAN I. ISRAEL. Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries, and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585–1713. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 420. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker A. F. UPTON. Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 281. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Douglas Lockhart JOHN K. THORNTON. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatrix Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.95 (US), cloth; $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Wyatt MacGaffey P. J. MARSHALL, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: II: The Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 639. $59.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Burnard ROD EDMOND. Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 307. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jane Samson PADDY GRIFFITH. The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1989–1802. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 304. £20.00; RORY MUIR. Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 342. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn KHALED FAHMY. All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 334. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Avigdor Levy JOHN MILES. Infectious Diseases: Colonising the Pacific? Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1997. Pp. 123. $29.95 (US), paper; SHELDON WATTS. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 400. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by F. B. Smith JOHN A. HALL. A History of the Peninsular War: VIII: The Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808–1814. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 640. £35.00. Reviewed by John K. Severn HENRY SCHWARZ. Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. x, 199. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Martha McLaren RANAJIT GUHA. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 245. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Milton Israel PASCAL JAMES IMPERATO. Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 332. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Youngs JACK GREENE and ALESSANDRO MASSIGNANI. Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854–1891. Conshohocken: Combined Publishing, 1998. Pp. 423. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler ANTJE HAGEN. Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in Groβbritannien, 1871–1918. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 356. DM 148. Reviewed by Paul Kennedy NICHOLAS CONSTANTINESCO. Romania on the European Stage, 1875–1880: The Quest for National Sovereignty and Independence. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1998; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 204. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by David MacKenzie SAMIR SAUL. La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914: Intérêts économiques et implications politiques. Paris: Ministry of Economies, Finance, and Industry, 1997. Pp. xix, 787. Fr. 249. Reviewed by Roger Owen PATRICK SALMON. Scandinavia and the Great Powers, 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 421. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Mikael af Malmborg PETER HASLINGER. Hundert Jahre Nachbarschaft: Die Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und Ungarn, 1895–1994. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xvi, 395. $63.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by George Barany RAJA MENON. Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xvi, 215. $22.50 (US), paper; PHILLIPS PAYSON O'BRIEN. British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900–1936. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 274. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jon Tetsuro Sumida KENNETH D. BROWN. Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History since 1900. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 269. $39.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Ian Nish STEPHANIE PO-YIN CHUNG. Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900–25. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 188. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk JONATHAN M. SOFFER. General Matthew B. Ridgway: From Progressivism to Reaganism, 1895–1993. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 246. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by William Stueck JOHN HORNE, ed. State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 292. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by J. F. V. Keiger GLENN E. TORREY. Romania and World War I: A Collection of Studies. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 392. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen YIGAL SHEFFY. British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914–1918. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xviii, 380. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by David Fromkin ROGER CHICKERING. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 227. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig JERRY W. JONES. US Battleship Operations in World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 170. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by Paul G. Halpern ANDREA CHANDLER. Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1917–1993. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 205. $44.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Sherman W. Garnett RONALD E. POWASKI. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 356. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Norman E. Saul CHRISTINE COLLETTE. The International Faith: Labour's Attitudes to European Socialism, 1918–39. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 211. $55.95 (US). Reviewed by:Pamela M. Graves ALFRED L. CASTLE. Diplomatic Realism: William R. Castle, Jr. and American Foreign Policy, 1919–1953. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 251. $32.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Freeman Smith ROLANDE DEPOORTERE. La question des réparations allemandes dans la politique étrangère de la Belgique après la première guerre mondiale, 2019–1925. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1997. Pp. 440. FrB 1500. Reviewed by Sally Marks AMOS PERLMUTTER. Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 194. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xix, 432. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Allan R, Millett MOGENS PELT. Tobacco, Arms, and Politics: Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1939–41. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1998; dist. Concord: Paul and Company. Pp. 342. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jon V. Kofas ALAN MEGAHEY. Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929–69. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 241. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Carver MICHAEL A. BUTLER. Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 240. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes MICHAEL L. ROI. Alternative to Appeasement: Sir Robert Vansittart and Alliance Diplomacy, 1934–1937. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. x, 198. $57.95 (US). Reviewed by Glyn A. Stone BROCK MILLMAN. The Ill-Made Alliance: Anglo-Turkish Relations, 1934–1940. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 518. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Margaret Lamb JOEL BLATT, ed. The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments. Providence: Berghahn, 1998. Pp. viii, 372. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Samir Saul BRIDGET GOODWIN. Keen as Mustard: Britain's Horrific Chemical Warfare Experiments in Australia. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 361. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Phelps PAUL H. KRATOSKA. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya: A Social and Economic History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 404. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. White ALLISON B. GILMORE. You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 226. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Alan Powell IAN GOODERSON. Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe, 1943–45. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 282. $57.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robin Higham SHIMON NAVEH. In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xxi, 398. $59.50 (US), cloth; $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid PERRY BIDDISCOMBE. Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944–1946. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 455. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay W. Baird MARK HARRISON, ed. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 307. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg DAVID HANLON. Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944–1982. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 305. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by I. C. Campbell BORIS N. LIEDTKE. Embracing a Dictatorship: US Relations with Spain, 1945–53. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 230. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert H. Whealey T. R. GOURVISH and N. TIRATSOO, eds. Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945–60. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. x, 165. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter J. van Baalen EDWARD NEWMAN. The UN Secretary-General from the Cold War to the New Era: A Global Peace and Security Mandate? New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 239. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Diehl SABRINA P. RAMET. Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 424. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Serhii Plokhy AVNER COHEN. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 470. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by William B. Quandt RAANAN REIN. In the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Inquisition: Israel's Relations with Francoist Spain, trans. Martha Grenzeback. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 278. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Haim Avni DWAYNE A. DAY, JOHN M. LOGSDON, and BRIAN LATELL, eds. Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. xiii,303. $47.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Lewis GILBERT M. JOSEPH, CATHERINE C. LEGRAND, and RICARDO D. SALVATORE, eds. Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US-Latin American Relations. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 575. $19.95 (US), paper; LARS SCHOULTZ. Beneath the United States: A History of US Policy toward Latin America. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 476. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. Randall DONNA RICH KAPLOWITZ. Anatomy of a Failed Embargo: US Sanctions against Cuba. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1998. Pp. x, 247. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Zimbalist MARTHA K. HUGGINS. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 247. $17.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Stephen G. Rabe MARK D. HARMON. The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. x, 272. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Kathleen Burk NICHOLAS VAN HEAR. New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal, and Regrouping of Migrant Communities. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 298. $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Judith M. Brown GARRY RODAN, KEVIN HEWISON, and RICHARD ROBISON, eds. The Political Economy of South-East Asia: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 299. $78.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Linda Lim T. N. SRINIVASAN. Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System: From the GATT to the Uruguay Round and the Future. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. x, 140. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephan Haggard STEPHEN WOOD. Germany, Europe, and the Persistence of Nations: Transformation, Interests, and Identity, 1989–1996. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. ix, 381. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik BASSAM TIBI. The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 262. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by As'ad AbuKhalil CHRISTOPHER COKER. Twilight of the West. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. x, 203. $28.00 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. Milward CYRIL BUFFET and BEATRICE HEUSER, eds. Haunted by History: Myths in International Relations. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1998. Pp. x, 294. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder
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