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Book Reviews

2001; Routledge; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07075332.2001.9640944

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Louis H. Feldman, Andrew C. Ross, John J. Contreni, Benjamin Arnold, Jonathan Riley‐Smith, Peter W. Edbury, Kenneth Pennington, Francis A. Dutra, Julius Kirshner, Antonio Santosuosso, Karl Gunnar Persson, John E. Kicza, Roger Buckley, Timothy J. Shannon, Kenneth Morgan, J. A. De Moor, John Grenier, M. N. Pearson, Kenneth J. Andrien, Pieter Emmer, Penelope Carson, J. C. D. Clark, Anthony Rhinelander, Lawrence S. Kaplan, K. David Milobar, Hannah Barker, John Gascoigne, Paul Webb, Deirdre McMahon, Malcolm Barber, Catherine R. Schenk, Anthony J. Barker, Kendrick A. Clements, Ralph Lee Woodward, Helen Callaway, Gregory Mann, Peter Kivisto, Vaclav Smil, Charles Pentland, Lothar Höbelt, Ian F. W. Beckett, Modris Eksteins, C. I. Hamilton, John W. Cell, R. W. Davies, Michael Jabara Carley, Paul Dukes, Farid el Khazen, Jean-Christian Lambelet, Norman J. W. Goda, Sarah Ansari, Robert J. McMahon, Bruce A. Elleman, Glen Balfour‐Paul, John W. Young, Howard J. Dooley, Tyler Priest, Hugh Laracy, Timothy N. Castle, Glenn J. Dorn, Alan P. Dobson, Choon-ho Park, David Tal, Leszek Buszynski, Peter Shearman, Roger D. Petersen, Fred H. Lawson, MacAlister Brown, Vassilis K. Fouskas, Chris Healy, T. David Mason, Richard Falk, John G. Darwin, Paul Gordon Lauren, Cathal J. Nolan, Walter LaFeber,

Medieval History and Crusades

MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ABERBACH. The Roman–Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman. MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ABERBACH. The Roman–Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman. BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. A History of the Church in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 1,232. $140.00 (us). Reviewed by Andrew C. Ross. TIMOTHY REUTER, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: III: c. 900–c. 1024. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 863. $110.00 (us). Reviewed by John J. Contreni. JOSEPH P. HUFFMAN. The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo–German Relations (1066–1307). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. x, 361. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benjamin Arnold. ROBERT CHAZAN. God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 270. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith. BERNARD HAMILTON. The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 288. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Peter Edbury. LAURIE SHEPARD. Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999. Pp. xxii, 240. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Pennington. PETER RUSSELL. Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’: A Life. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 448. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Francis A. Dutra. CHRISTINE SHAW. The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 257. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Julius Kirshner. DANIELA FRIGO, ed. Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450–1800, trans. Adrian Belton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. v, 262. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Antonio Santosuosso. LEE A. CRAIG and DOUGLAS FISHER. The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration, and Cycles, 1500–1913. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xii, 389. $120.00 (us). Reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson. IDA ALTMAN. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560–1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 254. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by John E. Kicza. IAN NISH and YOICHI KIBATA, eds., with assistance from TADASHI KURAMATSU. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations: I: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600–1930. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 282. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Roger Buckley. KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 297. $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon. DAVID ELTIS. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 353. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan. PHILIP D. CURTIN. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 294. $27.95 (us). Reviewed by J. A. De Moor. WILLIAM R. NESTER. The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607–1775. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xiii, 326. $69.50 (us); WILLIAM R. NESTER. The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756–1775. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. ix, 308. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by John Grenier. GLENN J. AMES. Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640–1683. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000; dist. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 262. $34.50 (us). Reviewed by M. N. Pearson. PETER T. BRADLEY and DAVID CAHILL. HabsburgPeru: Images, Imagination, and Memory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 167. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien. KLAUS J. BADE. Europa in Bewegung: Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000. Pp. 510. DM 58.90. Reviewed by Pieter Emmer. D. DENNIS HUDSON. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706–1835. Grand Rapids and Richmond, UK: William B. Eerdman's and Curzon Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 220. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Penelope Carson. ROBIN EAGLES. Francophilia in English Society, 1748–1815. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. x, 229. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark. NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV. Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxi, 197. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Rhinelander. H. W. BRANDS. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday, 2000; dist. Toronto: Random House. Pp. vi, 759. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan. ELIGA H. GOULD. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xxiv, 262. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by K. David Milobar. STUART ANDREWS. The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789–99. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 280. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Hannah Barker. ANNE-MAREE WHITAKER. Joseph Foveaux: Power and Patronage in Early New South Wales. Sydney: University of New Soudi Wales Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 257. $29.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John Gascoigne. STEVEN E. MAFFEO. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xxvii, 355. $32.95 (us). Reviewed by Paul Webb. STEPHEN HOWE. Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 334. £25.00. Reviewed by Deirdre Mcmahon. ELIZABETH SIBERRY. The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii, 228. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Malcolm C. Barber. DAVID R. MEYER. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 272. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk. CLARE ANDERSON. Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815–53. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 192. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony J. Barker. PATRICIA LEE SYKES. Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiii, 399. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Kendrick A. Clements. OLIVER MARSHALL, ed. English-Speaking Communities in Latin America. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 387. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.. CHERYL MCEWAN. Gender, Geography, and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. ix, 250. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Helen Callaway. OWEN WHITE. Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, i895–1960. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 200. $116.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gregory Mann. JULIANNA PUSKÁS. Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States, trans. Zora Ludwig. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. Pp. xix, 444. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Kivisto. J. R. MCNEILL. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 421. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Vaclav Smil. LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH. Creating International Studies: Angell, Mitrany, and the Liberal Tradition. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. vii, 200. $65.95 (us). Reviewed by Charles C. Pentland. MARK CORNWALL. The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvi, 485. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by. ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FÖRSTER, eds. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 531. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett. VEJAS GABRIEL LIULEVICIUS. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Modris Eksteins. CHRISTOPHER M. BELL. The Royal Navy, Seapower, and Strategy between the Wars. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 232. $51.00 (us). Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton. JOHN SMITH, ed. Administering Empire: The British Colonial Service in Retrospect. London: University of London Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 350. £22.50. Reviewed by John W. Cell. DAVID R. STONE. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926–1933. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. vii, 287. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by R. W. Davies. JULIAN BULLARD and MARGARET BULLARD, eds. Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930–1934. Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Day Books, 2000. Pp. x, 310. £19.50. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley. ROBERT W. THURSTON and BERND BONWETSCH, eds. The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000; dist: Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 275. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Paul Dukes. EYAL ZISSER. Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xiii, 297. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Farid El Khazen. GEORG KREIS, ed. Switzerland and the Second World War. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xvii, 378. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Jean-Christian Lambelet. GÜNTER BISCHOF. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945–55: The Leverage of the Weak. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xvii, 237. $72.00 (us). Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda. IFTIKHAR H. MALIK. Islam, Nationalism, and the West: Issues of Identity in Pakistan. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xx, 360. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Sarah Ansari. DAVID RYAN and VICTOR PUNGONG, eds. The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvii, 247. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert J. Mcmahon. GILBERT ROZMAN, ed. Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization, 1949–1999. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. 389. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Bruce A. Elleman. TORE T. PETERSEN. The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 1952–7. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 170. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Glen Balfour-Paul. WOLFRAM KAISER and GILLIAN STAERCK, eds. British Foreign Policy, 1955–64: Contracting Options. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 296. $68.00 (us). Reviewed by John W. Young. SAUL KELLY and ANTHONY GORST, eds. Whitehall and the Suez Crisis. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 250. $24.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Howard Dooley. FRANCIS ADAMS. Dollar Diplomacy: United States Economic Assistance to Latin America. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xv, 200. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Tyler Priest. HOWARD P. WILLENS and DEANNE C. SIEMER. National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961–1972). Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. x, 281. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Hugh Laracy. KENNETH CONBOY and DALE ANDRADÉ. Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. x, 347. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by Timothy N. Castle. VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS and JAMES DUNKERLEY, eds. The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda. Cambridge, Mass, and London: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1999; dist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Pp. xiii, 359. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Glenn J. Dorn. RICHARD E. NEUSTADT. Report to JFK: The Skybolt Crisis in Perspective. Ithaca nd London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. 177. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Alan P. Dobson. UNRYU SUGANUMA. Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations: Irredentism and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 298. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by Choon-Ho Park. P. R. KUMARASWAMY, ed. Revisiting the Tom Kippur War. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 249. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by David Tal. HIROSHI KIMURA. Distant Neighbors: I: Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. xxi, 334. $84.95 (us); Distant Neighbors: II: Japanese-Russian Relations under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. xx, 354. $84.95 (us); $150.00 (us), for two volume set. Reviewed by Leszek Buszynski. DANUTA PASZYN. The Soviet Attitude to Political and Social Change in Central America, 1979–90: Case–Studies on Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. ix, 161. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Shearman. MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, ed. The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 322. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Roger Petersen. SARAH GRAHAM-BROWN. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xvii, 380. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson. RICHARD H. SOLOMON. Exiting Indochina: US Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization of Relations with Vietnam. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 113. $12.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Macalister Brown. CHRISTOPHER BREWIN. The European Union and Cyprus. Huntingdon, UK: Eothen Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 290. £19.50, paper. Reviewed by Vassilis Fouskas. K. R. HOWE. Nature, Culture, and History: The ‘Knowing’ of Oceania. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. x, 120. $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Chris Healy. PATRICK M. REGAN. Civil Wars and Foreign Powers: Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 172. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by T. David Mason. FRED HALLIDAY. Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 402. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Richard Falk. MICHAEL HARDT and ANTONIO NEGRI. Empire. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 478. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John G. Darwin. RUTH A. ROLAND. Interpreters as Diplomats: A Diplomatic History of the Role of Interpreters in World Politics. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. viii, 209. $28.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Paul Gordon Lauren. KARMA NABULSI. Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance, and the Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 293. $116.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Cathal J. Nolan. DAVID MOSLER and BOB CATLEY. Global America: Imposing Liberalism on a Recalcitrant World. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xiv, 225. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Walter Lafeber.