Book Review

Book Reviews

Harbutt, Fraser, Parrott, David, Moran, Daniel, Small, Melvin, Crozier, Andrew J., Ferrell, Robert H., Coogan, John W., Owram, Doug, Roy, Patricia E., Dallin, Alexander, Reid, Brian Holden, Bermingham, Jack, Flint, John, Lungu, Dov B., Conway, John S., Stafford, David, Clifford, J. Garry, Granatstein, J.L., Gilderhus, Mark T., Francis, Michael J., Goldstein, Erik, Marchak, M. Patricia, Anson, Edward, Altman, Ida, Bone, Brian, Clark, Patricia A., Brown, L. Carl, Black, Jeremy, Carroll, F.M., Gallicchio, Marc, Wallis, Faith, Allsen, Thomas T., Rodney, William, Latham, A.J.H., Dobbs, Charles M., Bosworth, Richard, Ion, Hamish

1990

Overview

A.B. BOSWORTH. Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 330. $44.50 (us), cloth; $14.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Edward Anson. ANTHONY R. BIRLEY. Septimius Severus: The African Emperor, rev. ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 291. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Patricia A. Clark. ARCHIBALD R. LEWIS. Nomads and Crusaders A.D. 1000-1368. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 213. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Faith Wallis. ELIZABETH ENDICOTT-WEST. Mongolian Rule in China: Local Administration in the Yuan Dynasty. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 217. $23.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen. J.H. ELLIOTT. Spain and Its World 1500-1700: Selected Essays. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp.xvi, 295. $27.50 (us). Reviewed by Ida Altman. RONALD HAYCOCK and KEITH NEILSON, eds. Men, Machines, and War. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988. Pp. xx, a 19. $27.95 (CAN). Reviewed by Brian Bond. PAUL SONNINO. Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 226. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by David Parrott. BRIAN W. HILL. Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of State and Premier Minister. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 259. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Jeremy Black. AZAR GAT. The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 281. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Daniel Moran. ROGER DANIELS. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 384. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Patricia E. Roy. R.P.T. DAVENPORT-HINES and GEOFFREY JONES, eds. British Business in Asia since 1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 301. $54.50 (us). Reviewed by A.J.H. Latham. GERARD J. DE GROOT. Douglas Haig, 1861-1928. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Pp.xi, 441. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid. LEROY VAIL, ed. The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa. London: James Currey; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 422. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by John Flint. PHILIP SNOW. The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Pp. xxii, 250. £14.95. Reviewed by Jack Bermingham. SCOTT S. BURNETT, ed. Korean-American Relations: Documents Pertaining to the Far Eastern Diplomacy of the United States: III: The Period of Diminishing Influence, 1896-1905. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 304. $24.00 (us). Reviewed by Charles M. Dobbs. GORDON LAXER. Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 247. $16.95 (CAN). Reviewed by M. Patricia Marchak. LINDA B. HALL and DON M. COERVER. Revolution on the Border: The United States and Mexico, 1910-1920. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 205. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark T. Gilderhus. RICHARD WALL and JAY WINTER, eds. The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 497. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by William Rodney. JOHN WHITECLAY CHAMBERS II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America. New York: The Free Press (Macmillan), 1987. Pp. 448. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by J. Garry Clifford. CHARLES C. MOSKOS. A Call to Civic Service: National Service for Country and Community. New York: The Free Press (Macmillan), 1988. Pp. xii, 226. $22.95 (us). Reviewed by J. Garry Clifford. MARSHALL M. LEE and WOLFGANG MICHALKA. German Foreign Policy 1917-1933: Continuity or Break? Leamington Spa: Berg (Publishers Limited; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. 180. $32.50 (us). Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier. JOHN ROBERT FERRIS. Men, Money, and Diplomacy: The Evolution of British Strategic Foreign Policy, 1919-1926. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 335. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Erik Goldstein. JOSHUA A. FOGEL, ed. and trans. Life Along the South Manchurian Railway: The Memoirs of Itō Takeo. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. Pp. xxxi, 241. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Hamish Ion. CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN. Fascism and the Mafia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 322. $27.50 (us). Reviewed by Richard Bosworth. WILLIAM S. GRENZEBACH, JR. Germany's Informal Empire in East-Central Europe: German Economic Policy toward Yugoslavia and Rumania, 1933-1939. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1988. Pp. ix, 269. DM 76. Reviewed by Dov B. Lungu. MICHAEL BURLEIGH. Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 351. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Alexander Dallin. WILLIAM R. ROCK. Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 1937-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 330. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by F.M. Carroll. HENRY PELLING. Britain and the Marshall Plan. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp. viii, 188. £35.00. Reviewed by F.M. Carroll. IAN M. DRUMMOND and NORMAN HILLMER. Negotiating Freer Trade: The United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the Trade Agreements of 1938. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 197. $29.95 (CAN); $35.00 (us). Reviewed by J.L. Granatstein. LAWRENCE C. SOLEY. Radio Warfare: OSS and CIA Subversive Propaganda. New York: Praeger, 1989. Pp. x, 249. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by David Stafford. LEON V. SIGAL. Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 335. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert H. Ferrell. ANNA C. BRAMWELL, ed. Refugees in the Age of Total War. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Pp. xv, 359. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by John S. Conway. IRA M. LAPIDUS. A History of Islamic Societies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxxi, 1,002. $42.50 (us). Reviewed by L. Carl Brown. GEORGE CORM. Fragmentation of the Middle East: The Last Thirty Years. London: Hutchinson, 1988. Pp. 282. £9.95. Reviewed by L. Carl Brown. STEPHEN G. RABE. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. 237. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael J. Francis. EDWARD A. OLSEN. US Policy and the Two Koreas. Boulder, Col. : Westview Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 115. $11.95 (us). Reviewed by John W. Coogan. JON HALLIDAY and BRUCE CUMINGS. Korea: The Unknown War. London: Viking, 1988. Pp. 224. £14.95. Reviewed by John W. Coogan. ANTHONY CLARK AREND. Pursuing a Just and Durable Peace: John Foster Dulles and International Organization. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988. Pp. x, 243. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Marc Gallicchio. H. BASIL ROBINSON. Diefenbaker's World: A Populist in Foreign Affairs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 351. $29.95 (CAN). Reviewed by Doug Owram. MICHAEL NICHOLSON. Formal Theories in International Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 254. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Melvin Small. W.W. ROSTOW. Essays on a Half-Century: Ideas, Policies, and Action. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1988. Pp. 190. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Fraser Harbutt.

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