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Book Reviews

1997; Routledge; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07075332.1997.9640810

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Bernard S. Bachrach, Paul Cartledge, Warren Treadgold, Dauvit Broun, C. P. Lewis, Linda Bryder, Virginia H. Aksan, Charles Littleton, Peter Pierson, Randall Lesaffer, Daniel A. Baugh, H. Inalcik, Tim Harris, Drew R. McCoy, Michael H. Fisher, Stuart Macintyre, John Erickson, Francis M. Carroll, Donald Harman Akenson, T. Atabaki, Michael A. Barnhart, Michael Fellman, Dennis E. Showalter, Raymond F. Betts, C. J. Bartlett, Jan‐Bart Gewald, Pekka Kalevi Hämäläinen, John B. Hattendorf, Sally Marks, T. G. Fraser, Tim Travers, Stephen Brockmann, David Stevenson, Peter J. Beck, Ronald Grigor Suny, Peter C. Keot, Brian Bond, Marc Gaixicchio, Ron Matthews, Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel, Michael Jabara Carley, Martin Kitchen, Diethelm Prowe, Barton J. Bernstein, H. W. Brands, Stephen J. Whitfield, Bo Petersson, Catherine R. Schenk, Desmond Morton, Paul D. Boyer, Lloyd C. Gardner, Peter L. Hahn, Greg Donaghy, David Hunt, Marilyn B. Young, William J. Duiker, Richard C. Thornton, Shu Guang Zhang, Susanne Peters, Nigel D. White, William M. LeoGrande, Charles F. Doran, James J. Wirtz, Judith M. Brown, Robert Jervis, Michael I. Handel,

Historical and Architectural Studies

Abstract DOYNE DAWSON. The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 203. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Bernard S. Bachrach WILLIAM ARMSTRONG PERCY III. Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. x, 260. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by P. A. Cartledge MARK WHITTOW. The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. xxv, 477. £45.00. Reviewed by Warren Treadgold BENJAMIN T. HUDSON. Prophecy of Berchán: Irish and Scottish High-Kings of the Early Middle Ages. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 271. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Dauvit Broun ANN WILLIAMS. The English and the Norman Conquest. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 264. $63.00 (US), cloth; $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by C. P. Lewis R. S. BRAY. Armies of Pestilence: The Effects of Pandemics on History. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 258. £30.00. Reviewed by Linda Bryder ASPARUCH VELKOV and EVGENIY RADUSHEV, trans. Ottoman Garrisons on the Middle Danube: Based on Austrian National Library MS MXT 562 of 956/1549–1550. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1996. Pp. 547. $83.00 (US). Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan LAURA HUNT YUNGBLUT. ‘Strangers Settled Here amongst Us’: Policies, Perceptions, and the Presence of Aliens in Elizabethan England. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. ix, 178. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles G. D. Littleton DAVID GOODMAN. Spanish Naval Power, 1589–1665: Reconstruction and Defeat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 305. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter O'M. Pierson BERNARDO JOSÉ GARCÍA GARCÍA. La Pax Hispanica: Polttica exterior del Duque de Lerma. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 432. BF 1,150. Reviewed by Randall Lesaffer J. R. JONES. The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xi, 242. £12.99. Reviewed by Daniel A. Baugh IVAN PARVEV. Habsburgs and Ottomans between Vienna and Belgrade, 1683–1739. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1996; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xviii, 345. $42.00 (US). Reviewed by Halil Inalcik DALE HOAK and MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, eds. The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688–89. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 33g. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Tim Harris LESTER D. LANGLEY. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 374. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Drew R. McCoy FREDERICK G. WHELAN. Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 368. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael H. Fisher P. J. MARSHALL, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 400. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stuart Macintyre L. G. BESKROVNY. The Russian Army and Fleet in the Nineteenth Century: Handbook of Armaments, Personnel, and Policy, ed. and trans. Gordon E. Smith. Gulf Breeze: Academic International Press, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 408. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by John Erickson HOWARD JONES and DONALD A. RAKESTRAW. Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo- American Relations in the 1840s. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1997; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 342. $50.00 (US), cloth; $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Francis M. Carroll EDWARD LAXTON. The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America, 1846–51. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Pp. vi, 250. £16.99. Reviewed by Harman Akenson TADEUSZ SWIETOCHOWSKI. Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 290. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Turaj Atabaki WILLIAM R. NESTER. Power across the Pacific: A Diplomatic History of American Relations with Japan. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. v, 446. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart EARLJ. HESS. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xii, 244. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Fellman GEOFFREY WAWRO. The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 313. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter ROBERT ALDRICH. Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 369. $45.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Raymond F. Betts ALAN CASSELS. Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. xiii, 302. £45.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. Reviewed by C.J. Bartlet HORST DRECHSLER. Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die groβen Land-und Minengesellschaften, 1885–1914. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996. Pp.360. DM96.00. Reviewed by Jan-Bart Gewald TUOMO POLVINEN. Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898–1904, trans. Steven Huxley. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 342. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Pekka Kalevi Hamalainen N. A. M. RODGER, ed. Naval Power in the Twentieth Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996; dist. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing. Pp. xxiv, 273. $62.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf LAMAR CECIL. Wilhelm II: Volume II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 503. $61.95 (US). Reviewed by Sally Marks RICHARD J. POPPLEWELL. Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire, 1904–1924. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. x, 354. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by T. G. Fraser ROY DOUGLAS. The Great War, 1914–1918: The Cartoonist's Vision. London and New York: Roudedge, 1995. Pp. vii, 157. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Travers JÜRGEN VON UNGERN-STERNBERG and WOLFGANG VON UNGERN-STERNBERG. Der Aufruf ‘An die Kulturwelt!’ Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996. Pp. 247. DM74.00. Reviewed by Stephen Brockmann BULLITT LOWRY. Armistice, 1918. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 245. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Stevenson DAVID ARMSTRONG, LORNA LLOYD, and JOHN REDMOND. From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organization in the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 321. $49.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Beck RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN. The Republic of Armenia: Volume III: From London to Sèvres, February–August, 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 534. $45.00 (US); Reviewed by Ronald Grigor Suny RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN. The Republic of Armenia: Volume IV: Between Crescent and Sickle: Partition and Sovietization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 496. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald Grigor Suny DERMOT KEOGH. Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church- State Relations, 1922–1960. Cork: Cork University Press, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxvi, 410. $62.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Kent WILLIAMSON MURRAY and ALLAN R. MILLETT, eds. Military Innovation in th Interwar Period. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 428. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian Bond T. CHRISTOPHER JESPERSON. American Images of China, 1931–1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 254. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Marc Gallicchio LON O. NORDEEN and DAVID NICOLLE. Phoenix over the Nile: A History of Egyptian Air Power, 1932–1994. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 413. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Ron Matthews NORMAN HILLMER, ROBERT BOTHWELL, ROGER SARTY, and CLAUDE BEAUREGARD, eds. A Country of Limitations: Canada and the World in 1939. Ottawa: Department of National Defence, Directorate of History, 1996. Pp. 295. No Charge. Reviewed by Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel MICHAEL ALFRED PESZKE. Battle for Warsaw, 1939–1944. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1995; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xi, 325. $56.00 (US);Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley ANITA J. PRAŻMOWSKA. Britain and Poland, 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 233. $64.95 (US), cloth; $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley BRADLEY F. SMITH. Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xix, 307. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen CAROLYN EISENBERG. Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944–1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 522. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Diethelm Prowe STEVEN T. ROSS. American War Plans, 1945–1950. London: Frank Cass, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xii, 189. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Barton J. Bernstein IRENE L. GENDZIER. Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945–1958. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 470. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by H. W. Brands WALTER L. HDCSON. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 283. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield JUSSI M. HANHIMÄKI. Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the ‘Finnish Solution’. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 279. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Bo Petersson ALAN S. MILWARD and GEORGE BRENNAN. Britain's Place in the World: A Historical Enquiry into Import Controls, 1945–1960. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. xvi, 320. $111.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk SEAN M. MALONEY. War without Battles: Canada's NATO Brigade in Germany, 1951 –1993. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1997. Pp. xxxviii, 525. $29.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Desmond Morton ROB KROES. If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mali: Europeans and American Mass Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 195. $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul Boyer JAMES A. BILL. George Ball: Behind the Scenes in US Foreign Policy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 274. $30.00 (US); Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner GEORGE C. MCGHEE. On the Frontline in the Cold War: An Ambassador Reports. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiii, 209. $57.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner NIGEL JOHN ASHTON. Eisenhower, MacmiUan, and the Problem of Nasser: Anglo- American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955–1959. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 273. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter L. Hahn ROY REMPEL. Counterweights: The Failure of Canada's German and European Policy, 1955–1995. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 270. $42.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Greg Donaghy ROBERT BUZZANCO. Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 386. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David Hunt BLEMA S. STEINBERG. Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 397. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young STEVEN HURST. The Carter Administration and Vietnam. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 201. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by William J. Duiker DAVID SKIDMORE. Reversing Course: Carter's Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Failure of Reform. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 234. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton ROBERT G. SUTTER. Shaping China's Future in World Affairs: The Role of the United States. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 194. $39.85 (US). Reviewed by Shu Guang Zhang THOMAS E. HALVERSON. The Last Great Nuclear Debate: NATO and Short-Range Nuclear Weapons in the 1980s. London: Macmillan, 1995. Pp. xvi, 219. £40.00. Reviewed by Susanne Peters FREDERICK K. LISTER. The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 182. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by N. D. White CHRISTIAN SMITH. Resisting Reagan: The US Central America Peace Movement. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 464. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by M. LeoGrande GEORGE MODELSKI and WILLIAM R. THOMPSON. Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics. Columbia: Umversity of South Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 263. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles F. Doran STEPHEN J. CIMBALA. The Politics of Warfare: The Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. 245. $45.00 (US) cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James J. Wirtz ROBIN COHEN. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Seatde: University of Washington Press. Pp. xii, 228. $50.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Judith M. Brown FEN OSLER HAMPSON. Nurturing Peace: Why Peace Settlements Succeed or Fail. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 287. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Jervis MICHAEL HERMAN. Intelligence Power in Peace and War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 414. $59.95 (US), cloth; $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael I. Handel