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Reviews of Books

2005; Routledge; Volume: 27; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07075332.2005.9641075

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Peter B. Golden, Michael Angold, David Buisseret, Penny Roberts, Charles J. Jago, Toby Osborne, John W. Dardess, N. A. M. Rodger, John Bushnell, Abraham Ascher, Ralph A. Austen, Lawrence S. Kaplan, Allan G. Brunger, Robert W. Hefner, Joseph Melling, Michael Broers, Lawrence C. Jennings, Timothy E. Anna, Sarah Palmer, Donald Reid, Robert L. Tignor, John Beeler, Roy MacLeod, Lothar Höbelt, Mark Levene, Nicholas Tarling, Matthew Cragoe, Douglas R. Reynolds, John Ferris, Anthony Adamthwaite, John H. Morrow, Craig Gibson, David S. Foglesong, Paul Canning, William H. Beezley, Odoric Y. K. Wou, John E. Findling, Federico Masini, Stanislav Kirschbaum, David Engel, Philip E. Catton, Keith Neilson, N. F. Dreisziger, Allan R. Millett, Douglas Porch, Robert H. Whealey, Bruce Morrison, Benny Morris, Ron Robin, Diethelm Prowe, Ian McGibbon, Richard Taylor, Joseph Smith, Ali M. Ansari, David S. Painter, Thomas W. Zeiler, Sean M. Maloney, Don McMillen, Arthur Marwick, Nicholas Greenwood Onuf, Larry A. Swatuk, Robert Jervis,

Chinese history and philosophy

Nicola Di Cosmo. Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 369. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter B. Golden Thomas F. Madden. Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 298. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Angold John Rennie Short. Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475–1600. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 185. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by David Buisseret Diarmaid Macculloch. Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490–1700. London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 831. $52.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Penny Roberts Henry Kamen. The Duke of Alba. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 204. $30.00 (US); Ricardo Padron. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 287. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles J. Jago Brennan C. Pursell. The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Tears' War. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xv, 320. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Toby Osborne Emmajinhua Teng. Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 370. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by John W. Dardess Sonia P. Anderson, ed. Report on the Manuscripts of the Late Allan George Finch Esq., of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland: V: General Correspondence 1693, Secret Service Papers, 1691–1693, and Naval and Military Papers to 1694. London: The Stationery Office, 2004. Pp. clix, 916. £130.00. Reviewed by N. A. M. Rodger David Schimmelpenninckvan Der Oye and Bruce W. Menning, eds. Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 361. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John Bushnell Lydia T. Black. Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 328. $65.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Abraham Ascher Randy J. Sparks. The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 189. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen Robert W. Smith. Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 196. $38.50 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan Barbara J. Messamore, ed. Canadian Migration Patterns: From Britain and North America. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. viii, 294. $24.95 (CDN)> paper. Reviewed by Alan G. Brunger Jean Debernardi. Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 318. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert W. Hefner Roy Porter and David Wright, eds. The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800–1965. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 371. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Joseph Melling Charles J. Esdaile. Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits, and Adventurers in Spain, 1808–1814. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 272. $40.00 (US); Alexander Grab. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xiii, 249. $22.95 (US). paper. Reviewed by Michael Broers Martin S. Staum. Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815–1848. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 245- $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence C.Jennings Robert H. Holden. Armies without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821–1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 336. $95.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna J. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-93. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 525. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Sarah Palmer Rifā'a Rāfi' Al-Tahtāwī. An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) (Takhlīs al-Ibrīzfī Talkhīs Bārīz aw al-Dīwān al-Nafīs bi-īwān Bārīs), intro. and trans. Daniel L. Newman. London: Saqi Books, 2004. Pp. 405. £24.99. Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid Edward M. Spiers. The Victorian Soldier in Africa. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xii, 212. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert L. Tignor Marshall J. Bastable. Arms and the State: Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854–1914. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xii, 300. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler Charles M. Good,Jr. The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 487. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Roy Macleod Konrad Canis. Bismarcks Aufienpolitik 1870–1890. Aufstieg und Gefährdung. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004. Pp. viii, 449. €39.80. Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt Carole Fink. Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1838. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 420. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark Levene Andrew R. Wilson. Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880–1816. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 304. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling G. R. Searle. A New England? Peace and War, 1886–1918. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 951. $85.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Matthew Cragoe Lu Yan. Re-Understanding Japan: Chinese Perspectives, 1895–1945. Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 339. $50.00 (US); Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh, eds. In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 392. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas R. Reynolds C. G. McKay and Bengt Beckman. Swedish Signal Intelligence, 1900–1945. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 310. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by John R. Ferris Robert J. Young. Marketing Marianne: French Propaganda in America, 1900–1941. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 247. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite Allen J. Frantzen. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 335. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John H. Morrow,Jr. Gordon Williams. British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation. London and New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. viii, 357. $195.00 (US). Reviewed by Craig Gibson Michael Cassella-Blackburn. The Donkey, the Carrot, and the Club: William C. Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1948. Westport: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xiv, 287. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by David S. Foglesong Mervyn O'Driscoll. Ireland, Germany, and the Nazis: Politics and Diplomacy, 19149–1939. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 304. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Canning Julio Moreno. Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. Chapel Hill and London: University of Nordi Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 321. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William H. Beezley Xiaoyuan Liu. Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921–1945. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 240. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Odoric Y. K. Wou Larry R. Gerlach, ed. The Winter Olympics: From Chamonix to Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 330. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by John E. Findling Rodney Koeneke. Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929–1979. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 256. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Federico Masini Tatjana Tonsmeyer. Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei, 1939–1945: Politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 387. €48.00. Reviewed by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum Shlomo Aronson. Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 382. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by David Engel Le Manh Hung. The Impact of World War II on the Economy of Vietnam, 1939-45. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2004; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. v, 304. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Philip E. Catton Jeremy Black. World War Two: A Military History. London and New York: Roudedge, 2003. Pp. xvi, 299. $19.95 (US). paper. Reviewed by Keith Neilson Jeffrey A. Keshen. Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. x, 389. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by N. F. Dreisziger Paul A. C. Koistinen. Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xiii, 657– $49-95 (US). Reviewed by Allan R. Millett Barbara Brooks Tomblin. With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 578. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Douglas Porch Ángel Viñas. En Las Garras del Águila: Los pactos con Estados Unidos, de Francisco Franco a Felipe González (1945–1995). Barcelona: Critica, 2003. Pp. 619. €28.00. Reviewed by Robert H. Whealey Gerd-Rainer Horn and Padraic Kenney, eds. Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945,1968,1989. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Litdefield, 2004. Pp. xix, 243. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bruce Morrison Peter L. Hahn. Caught in the Middle East: US Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1946–1961. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 398. $74.25 (CDN); David Tal. War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. viii, 498. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Benny Morris Nils Gilman. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 329. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by Ron Robin Alfred C. Mierzejewski. Ludwig Erhard: A Biography. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xv, 278. $82.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Diethelm Prowe Alexander Trapeznik and Aaron Fox, eds. Lenin's Legacy Down Under: New Zealand's Cold War. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 247. $39.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ian McGibbon David Caute. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 788. $63.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Richard Taylor Greg Grandin. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 311. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Joseph Smith Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne, eds. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 360. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Ali M. Ansari Salim Yaqub. Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. x, 377. $37.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by David S. Painter Francis J. Gavin. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 263. $74.25 (CDN). Reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler Katsumi Ishizuka. Ireland and International Peacekeeping Operations, 1960–2000: A Study of Irish Motivation. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2004. Pp. xiv, 234. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Sean Maloney Morris Rossabi, ed. Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers. Seatde and London: University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 296. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Don McMillen Jeremy Vabon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 394. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Arthur Marwick Patricia A. Weitsman. Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 244. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Onuf Thomas J. Bassett and Donald Crummey, eds. African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvii, 270. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Larry A. Swatuk K. J. Holsti. Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 349. $70.00 (US), cloth; $26.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert Jervis