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Book reviews

2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09592290008406182

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Mel Hall, Nigel J. Brailey, Alex May, Jeremy Black, Greg Kennedy, David Stevenson, Alan Sharp, Gaynor Johnson, Spencer Mawby, Rachel Utley, Mark Pittaway, Martin Thornton,

Scottish History and National Identity

Jane C. Loeffler, The Architecture of Diplomacy. Building America's Embassies (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), xiii + 306 pp., 154 b/w illus. £19.95, ISBN 1–56898–138–4. Ian C. Ruxton (ed.), The Diaries and Letters of Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929): A Scholar‐Diplomat in East Asia (Lewiston/Queenstown /Lampeter: Edward Mellen Press, 1998), xvii + 511 pp. £79.50, ISBN 0–7734–8248–2. Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism (New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA, and London: Sage, 1998), 274pp. ISBN 0–7619–9277–4 (US) and Rs 375 (hb), ISBN 81–7036–736–0 (India). Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling (eds.), Events that Changed the World in the Seventeenth Century (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), xi + 213 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0 313 290784. Elmer Plischke, U.S. Department of State: A Reference History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc (distributed by the Eurospan Group), 1999). xl + 763 pp., illustrations, glossary of diplomatic terms, glossary of symbols and acronyms, table, appendices, notes, bibliography. £93.50 (hb), ISBN 0–313–29126–8. John Charmley, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the Balance of Power, 1874–1914 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999), x + 518 pp. £25, ISBN 0–340–65790–1. Arthur Turner, The Cost of War: British Policy on French War Debts, 1918–1932 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998), 328 pp., £45 (hb), ISBN 1–898723–0. John Herman, The Paris Embassy of Sir Eric Phipps: Anglo‐French Relations and the Foreign Office, 1937–29 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998), viii + 276 pp. £49.50 (pb), ISBN 1–902210–04–2. Ekavi Athanassopoulou, Turkey: Anglo‐American Security Interests, 1942–52: The First Enlargement of NATO (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999), xiv + 274 pp. £35 (hb), ISBN 0–7146–4855–8. Beatrice Heuser, NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949–2000 (London: Macmillan Press, 1997), xvii + 254 pp. £45 (hb), ISBN 0–333–67365–4. Jenö Györkei and Miklós Horváth (eds.), 1956: Soviet Intervention in Hungary, trans. Emma Roper Evans (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999), xv + 318 pp. £31 (hb), ISBN 963–9116–36‐X; £13.95 (pb), ISBN 963–9116–35–1. Elizabeth B. Elliot‐Meisel, Arctic Diplomacy: Canada and the United States in the Northwest Passage (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 225 pp. £27 (hb), ISBN 0–8204–3826‐X.