Reviews of Books
2009; Routledge; Volume: 31; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.2009.9641168
ISSN1949-6540
AutoresMartin W. Lewis, Victor Mallia‐Milanes, Craige B. Champìon, Arthur M. Eckstein, David S. Bachrach, Hugh Thomas, John France, Christopher Tyerman, Barbara Bombi, Lynn Hunt, Peter H. Wilson, Heather Sutherland, Stephen D. Behrendt, Howard Louthan, Eric Tagliacozzo, Pádraig Lenihan, Peter Reeves, Thomas Munck, Matthew Z. Mayer, Richard A. Dennis, Thomas Bartlètt, Stephen Conway, Mark Lawrence, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, James Hiller, Philip Dwyer, Jonathan Sperber, Ann Pottinger Saab, Douglas McCalla, Francis M. Carroll, Antoinette Burton, William Glenn Gray, Katie Pickles, Geneviève Allard, A. Hamish Ion, Holger H. Herwig, Ronald P. Bobroff, Pricilla Roberts, David Harkness, Jan Ruger, Frank J. Coppa, Stephen R. MacKinnon, R. J. B. Bosworth, John W. Young, Lothar Höbelt, John Ferris, Keith Jeffery, Antonio Cazorla‐Sánchez, Robert M. Hayden, Walter L. Hixson, Terry Copp, James A. Boutilier, Ian Nish, David Tal, Allan R. Millett, Donald Reid, Nicholas Tarling, Charlotte Macdonald, Ann Kent, Steven L. Rearden, A. S. Bhalla, Anita Inder Singh, Malcolm M. Campbell, Akira Irive, Jeremy Salt, John Breuilly,
Tópico(s)Historical and Architectural Studies
ResumoBARRY CUNLIFFE. Europe between the Oceans: Themes and Variations: gooo BCAD 1000. New Haven, C T and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 518. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin W. Lewis AYSE DEVRIM ATAUZ. Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008. Pp. xiv, 379. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Victor Mallia-Milanes IAN WORTHINGTON. Philip II of Macedonia. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xx, 303. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Craige B. Champion FEDERICO SANTANGELO. Sulla, the Elites, and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xix, 230. €99.00. Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK. Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xviii, 460. $29.99 (US), paper.Reviewed by David S. Bachrach STEVE FLANDERS. De Courcy: Anglo-Normans in Ireland, England, and France in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2008. Pp. 205. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugh M. Thomas JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH. The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008. Pp. 125. $24.50 (US). Reviewed by John France NORMAN HOUSLEY. Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 357. $38.00 (US).Reviewed by Christopher Tyerman BERNARD BARBICHE in collaboration with Ségolène de Dainville-Barbiche. Bulla, Legatus, Nuntius: Études de diplomatique et de diplomatic pontificales (Xllle-XVIIe siècle). Paris: École des Chartes, 2007; dist. Geneva: Librairie Droz. Pp. 575.€55.00, paper. Reviewed by Barbara Bombi INA BAGHDIANTZ MCCABE. Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime. Oxford and New York, NY: Berg, 2008. Pp. vi, 409. $119.95 (US). Reviewed by Lynn Hunt JOHN A. LYNN. Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 239. $24.99 (u s), paper. Reviewed by Peter H. Wilson ULBE BOSMA and REMCO RABEN. Being ‘Dutch’ in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920, trans. Wendie Shaffer. Athens, OH: Ohio University Research in International Studies, 2008. Pp. xx, 439. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Heather Sutherland DAVID ELTIS and DAVID RICHARDSON, eds. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the Mew Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii,377. $90.00 (US).Reviewed by Stephen D. Behrendt LOTHAR HÖBELT. Ferdinand III: Friedenskaiser wider Willen. Graz: Ares Verlag, 2008. Pp. 488. €29.90. Reviewed by Howard Louthan STEVE CLARK and PAUL SMETHURST, eds. Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008; dist. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Pp. xi, 276. $37.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eric Tagliacozzo TOBY BARNARD. Improving Ireland? Projectors, Prophets, and Profiteers, 1641–1786. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2008. Pp. 192. $75.00 (US).Reviewed by Padraig Lenihan LEONARD BLUSSE. Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 133. $25.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter D. Reeves DAVID SORKIN. The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 339. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Munck HERVÉ HASQUIN. Joseph II: Catholique anticlérical et réformateur impatient, 1741–1790. Brussels: Éditions Racine, 2007. Pp. 328. €29.95, paper.Reviewed by Matthew Z. Mayer ANDREW LEES and LYNN HOLLEN LEES. Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 300. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Richard Dennis MAURICE J. BRIC. Ireland, Philadelphia, and the Re-Invention of America, 1760– 1800. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 363. $65.00 (US); JOHN CHILDS. The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688–91. London and New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xxii, 440. $49.95 (US).Reviewed by Thomas Bartlett MATT SCHUMANN and KARL SCHWEIZER. The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History.London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. Pp. x, 300. $140.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen Conway WALTER L. HIXSON. The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and US Foreign Policy. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 377. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark Atwood Lawrence PATRICIA H. MARKS. Deconstructing Legitimacy: Viceroys, Merchants, and the Military in Late Colonial Peru. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 403. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Natalia Sobrevilla Perea MARIANNE P. STOPP, ed. The Mew Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 256. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by James K. Hiller THIERRY LENTZ. Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire: III: La France et l'Europe de Napoléon, 1804–1814. Paris: Editions Fayard, 2007. Pp. 835. €30.00, paper. Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer MATTHEW P. FITZPATRICK. Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848–1884. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. 237. $99.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Sperber CHRISTIAN HOYER. Salisbury und Deutschland: Aufienpolitisches Denken und britische Deutschlandpolitik zwischen 1856 und 1880. Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 2008. Pp. 507. €69.00. Reviewed by Ann Potttnger Saab ANDREW SMITH. British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation: Constitution Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 229. $80.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Douglas Mccalla DUNCAN ANDREW CAMPBELL. Unlikely Allies: Britain, America, and the Victorian Origins of a Special Relationship. London and New York, NY: Continuum, 2008. Pp. viii, 307. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Francis M. Carroll MARILYN LAKE and HENRY REYNOLDS. Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 371. $94.95 (US). Reviewed by Antoinette Burton CHRISTOPHER KOBRAK. Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 484. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by William Glenn Gray CECILIA MORGAN. ‘A Happy Holiday’: English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870–1930. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 461. $37.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Katie Pickles BILL RAWLING. La mart pour ennemi: La médecine militaire canadienne, 2nd ed., trans. Pierre R. Desrosiers. Outremont, QC: Athéna éditions, 2007; dist. Boisbriand, QC: Prologue. Pp. 373. $34.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Genevieve Allard SONYA GRYPMA. Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, l888–1947. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. xviii, 292. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion OLIVER STEIN. Die deutscke Heeresriistungspolitik, 1890–1914: Das Militär und der Primat der Politik. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2007. Pp. 444. €58.00; PETER BAUMGART, BERNHARD R. KROENER, and HEINZ STUBIG, eds. Die Preussische Armee: Zwischen Ancien Régime und Reichsgriindung. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2008. Pp. xiii, 283. €39.90. Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig IRWIN HALFOND. Maurice Paléologue: The Diplomat, the Writer, the Man, and the Third French Republic. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. Pp. xiii, 189. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ronald P. Bobroff PATRICK H. HASE. The Six-Day War ofiSgg: Hong Kong in the Age of Imperialism. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008; dist. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Pp. xii, 276. $49.50 (US).Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts JEROME AAN DE WIEL. The Irish Factor, 1899–1999: Ireland's Strategic and Diplomatic Importance for Foreign Powers. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xx, 428. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by David Harkness NICOLAS WOLZ. Das lange Warten: Kriegserfahrungen deutscher und britischer Seeojfziere, 1914 bis 1918. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2008. Pp. 519. €39.90. Reviewed by Jan Rüger PAUL O'SHEA. A Cross Too Heavy: Eugenio Pacelli: Politics and the Jews of Europe, 1917–1943. Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenberg Publishing, 2008; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 392. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank J. Coppa S. A. SMITH. Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 249. $29.99 (USX paper. Reviewed by Stephen R. Mackinnon DANIELA ROSSINI. Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy: Culture, Diplomacy, and War Propaganda, trans. Antony Shugaar. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 263. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth SEAN GREENWOOD. Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the Shaping of the Modern World. Leiden and Boston MA: Martinus Nijhoff, 2008. Pp. xxx, 440. €129.00. Reviewed by John W. Young ROLF STEININGER. Austria, Germany, and the Cold War: From the Anschluss to the State Treaty, 1938–1955. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. x, 172. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Lothar Hobelt KURT F.JENSEN. Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939–51. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. 230. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by John Ferris MICHAEL KENNEDY. Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939–1945. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2008. Pp. x, 358. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith Jeffery RICHARD WIGG. Churchill and Spain: The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940–1945. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 253. $37.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez STEVAN K. PAVLOWITCH. Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 333. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by Robert M. Hayden MARC J. O'REILLY. Unexceptional: America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941–2007. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Pp. xxi, 343. $80.00 (US), cloth; $38.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Walter L. Hixson OLIVIER WIEVIORKA. Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris, trans. M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 446. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Terry Copp SUZANNE FALGOUT, LIN POYER, and LAURENCE M. CARUCCI. Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Pp. x, 275. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James A. Boutilier HIROSHI KIMURA. The Kurillian Knot: A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations, trans. Mark Ealey. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix, 260. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Nish BENNY MORRIS. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 524. $32.50 (US).Reviewed by David Tal INGO TRAUSCHWEIZER. The Cold War US Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War.Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Pp. xii, 366. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Allan R. Millett RAPHAËLLE BRANCHE and SYLVIE THÉNAULT, eds. La France en guerre, 1954–1962: Expériences métropolitaines de la guerre d'indépendance algérienne. Paris: Éditions Autrement, 2008. Pp. 501. €26.00, paper; ÉRIC SAVARÈSE. L'Algerie depassionnee: Au delà du tumulte des mémoires. Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2008. Pp. 214. €19.00, paper. Reviewed by Donald Reid KWEKU AMPIAH. The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955: The Reactions of the US, UK, and Japan. Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2007. Pp. x, 252. £50.00.Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling KEVIN B. WITHERSPOON. Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 212. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Charlotte MacDonald ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON. Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980–2000. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvii, 251. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ann Kent NORMAN A. GRAEBNER, RICHARD DEAN BURNS, and JOSEPH M. SIRACUSA. Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War. Westport, CT: Praeger Security, 2008. Pp. viii, 180. $49.95 (US).Reviewed by Steven L. Rearden AMARDEEP ATHWAL. China-India Relations: Contemporary Dynamics. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xv, 159. $150.00 (US). Reviewed by A. S. Bhalla DIETMAR ROTHERMUND. India: The Rise of an Asian Giant. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 274. $35.00 (US).Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh KATHERINE GOODNOW, with JACK LOHMAN and PHILIP MARFLEET. Museums, the Media, and Refugees: Stories of Crisis, Control, and Compassion. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. 206. $39.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Malcolm Campbell ANDREW HURRELL. On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 354. $45.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Akira Iriye BASSAM TIBI. Political Islam, World Politics, and Europe: Democratic Peace and Euro-Islam versus Global Jihad. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xxii, 311. $41.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Salt DAVID D. LAITIN. Nations, States, and Violence. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 162. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by John Breuilly
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