Book Review

Book Reviews

Rabinovich, Itamar, Rodger, Greenwich N. A. M., Fisher, Michael H., Grumet, Robert S., Gillingham, John, Masters, Bruce, Yi, Kilj. Y, Kubicek, Robert, Porsdam, Helle, Lee, Sydney Robert, Crawford, Beverly, Robbins, Lampeter Keith, Stephanson, Anders, Ninkovich, Frank, Witherell, Larry L., Thoms, David, Fu, Poshek, Barnes, T.D., Long, David, Broeze, Franklin, Gellman, Irwin F., Langdon, John, Horn, Martin, Parker, Geoffrey, Cookson, J. E., Bahm, Karl F., Reynolds, David, Bourantonis, Dimitris, Hancock, David, Schmitt, John F., Larres, Klaus, Adamthwaite, Anthony, Shaw, Tony, Woolf, D. R., Betz, Hans-Georg, Jago, Charles J., Hartley, Janet, Karsh, Efraim, Rule, John C., Carpenter, D. A., Berger, Thomas U., Wilks, Lampeter Ivor, Scirocco, Giovanni, Clarke, John, Granieri, Ronald J., Khadduri, Majid, Eaton, Richard M., Goda, Norman J. W., Stokes, Lawrence D., Russett, Bruce, Kennedy, Michael, Leitz, Christian, Clifford, J. Garry, Thomas, Martin, Cuff, Robert, Mearsheimer, John J., Kwan, Daniel Y. K., Appleby, David F., Cohen, William B., Milward, Alan S., Bosworth, R. J. B., Kirk-Greene, A. H. M., Cleveland, Wi

1998

Overview

MARGARET C. MILLER. Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 331.$100.00 (us). Reviewed by Paul Cartledge J. E. LENDON. Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 320. $108.00(CDN). Reviewed by T.D. Barnes YOUSSEF COURBAGE and PHILIPPE FARGUES. Christians and Jews under Islam, trans. Judy Mabro. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press.Pp. xiii, 242. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Bruce Masters JANET L. NELSON. The Frankish World, 750-900. London: Hambledon Press,1996. Pp. xxxi, 256. $60.00 (us). Reviewed by David F. Appleby MATTHEW STRICKLAND. War and Chivalry: The Conduct and Perception of War inEngland and Normandy, 1066-1217. New York: Cambridge University Press,1996. Pp. xxii, 387. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by D.A. Carpenter ANDRE WINK. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Volume II: The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997. Pp. xii, 427. $137-50 (us). Reviewed by Richard M. Eaton ULRIKE KESSLER. Richard I Löwenherz: König, Kreuzritter, Abenteurer. Graz: VerlagStyria, 1995. Pp. 367. DM 58. Reviewed by John Gillingham WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN. The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the EarlyFourteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 317.$16.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John Langdon DAURIL ALDEN. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, ItsEmpire, and Beyond, 1540-1750. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp.xxxi, 707. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by Murdo J. MacLeod HENRY KAMEN. Philip of Spain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press,1997. Pp. xvi, 384. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Charles J. Jago LESLEY B. CORMACK. Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities,1580-1620. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 281.$23-95 (us), paper. Reviewed by D.R. Woolf JOHN A. LYNN. Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715. New York:Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 651. $64.95 (us)- Reviewed by Richard Booney B. F. PORSHNEV. Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years War, 1630-1635, trans.Brian Pearce; ed. Paul Dukes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xxi, 256. $54-95 (us). Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker MARGARET DEACON. Scientists and the Sea, 1650-1900 : A Study of Marine Science, 2nd ed. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. Pp. xl, 459. $85.95(us). Reviewed by N.A.M. Rodger FRANCOIS CROUZET. Britain, France, and International Commerce: From Louis XIV to Victoria. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing.Pp. xii, 312. $94-95 (us); Reviewed by David Hancock H. V. BOWEN. Elites, Enterprise, and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii,257-$59-95 (us). Reviewed by David Hancock LAURENCE HUEY BOLES, JR. The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War ofthe Spanish Succession, 1702-1714. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. x, 287. $46.95(us). Reviewed by John C. Rule ANTHONY CROSS. By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia. New York: Cambridge University Press,1997. Pp. xv, 474. $80.00 (us). Reviewed by Janey Hartley S. ARASARATNAM. Maritime Commerce and English Power: Southeast India, 1750-1800. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996; dist. Brookfield, Ashgate Publishing. Pp. vii,326. $72.95 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Disney LAURENCE BROCKLISS and DAVID EASTWOOD, eds. A Union of Multiple Identities:The British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997;dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xviii, 222. $69.95 (us)- Reviewed by Keith Robin WALTER A. MCDOUGALL. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounterwith the World since 1776. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Pp. xiii, 286.$26.00 (us). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich JOSEPH R. FISCHER. A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign against the Iroquois, July-September 1779. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,1997. Pp. x, 265. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert S. Grumet JAN KŘEN. Die Konfliktgemeinschaft: Tschechen und Deutsche, 1780-1918. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996. Pp. 404. DM 68; Reviewed by Karl F. Bahm RUDOLF JAWORSKI and ROBERT LUFT, eds. 1948/49 Revolutionen in Ostmittel-europa. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996. Pp. 455. DM 98. Reviewed by Karl F. Bahm C. A. BAYLY. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communicationin India, 1780-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xiv, 412. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael H. Fisher JENNIFER MORI. William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795. New York: StMartin's Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 305. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by J.E. Cookson JOSEPH K. ADJAYE. Diplomacy and Diplomats in 19th Century Asante. Trentonand Asmara: Africa World Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 265. $18.95 (us) paper. Reviewed by Ivor Wiles ABBAS AMANAT. Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the IranianMonarchy, 1831-1896. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xix,536.$45.00 (us). Reviewed by Gavin R. G. Hambly JÖRG BRECHTEFELD. Mitteleuropa and German Politics: 1848 to the Present. London:Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. vii, 195. $49.95 (us); Reviewed by Christian Leitz ROBERT MARK SPAULDING. Osthandel and Ostpolitik: German Foreign Trade Policiesin Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer. Providence: Berghahn Books,1997. Pp. xii, 546. $79.00 (us). Reviewed by Christian Leitz JOHN R. DAVIS. Britain and the German Zollverein, 1848-66. New York: St Martin'sPress, 1997. Pp. x, 238. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by John Clarke APOLLOS O. NWAUWA. Imperialism, Academe, and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans, 1860-1960. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland,Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xix, 245. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene G. D. SHEFFIELD, ed. Leadership and Command: The Anglo-American Military Experiencesince 1861. London: Brassey's, 1997. Pp. xiii, 242. £25.00. Reviewed by John P. Campbell JAKOB VOGEL. Nationen im Gleichschritt: Der Kult der ←Nation in Waffen→ in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1871-1914. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,1997. Pp. 404. DM 78. Reviewed by Thomas Rohkrämer DIETER BRÖTEL. Frankreich im Fernen Osten: Imperialistische Expansion undAspiration in Siam und Malaya, Laos, und China, 1880-1904. Stuttgart: FranzSteiner Verlag, 1996. Pp. xviii, 890. DM 198. Reviewed by Robert Lee H. L. WESSELING. Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. x, 212. $59-95 (us). Reviewed by William B. Cohen ROBERT COLE Propaganda in Twentieth Century War and Politics: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 402. $48.50 (us). Reviewed by Tony Shaw IAN CLARK. Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 220. $108.00(CDN). Reviewed by Richard Crockatt MARTIN EVANS and KEN LUNN, eds. War and Memory in the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 272. $19.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by David Thoms RAJEN HARSHE. Twentieth Century Imperialism: Shifting Contours and Changing Conceptions. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. Pp. 276. $29.95 (us)- Reviewed by Robert Kubicek GOTTFRIED NIEDHART, DETLEF JUNKER, and MICHAEL W. RICHTER, eds. Deutschland in Europa: Nationale Interessen und Internationale Ordnung im 20. Jahrhundert. Mannheim: Palatium Verlag, 1997. Pp. xi, 402. DM 98. Reviewed by Ronald J. Granieri MICHAEL HUGHES. Inside the Enigma: British Officials in Russia, 1900-1939. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 336. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Dominic Leiven BRIAN MCALLISTER LINN. Guardians of Empire: The US Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997;dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 343. $61.95 (CDN). Reviewed by J. Garry Clifford LIAN Xi. The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missionsin China, 1907-1932. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press,1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $38.50 (us). Reviewed by Daniel Y. K. Kwan HASAN KAYALI. Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and lslamism inthe Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.Pp. xv, 291. $18.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by William L. Cleveland BOB REINALDA, ed. The International Transportworkers Federation, 1914-1948:The Edo Fimmen Era. Amsterdam: Stichting Beheer Internationaal Instituut voorSociale Geschiedenis, 1997. Pp. 301. NLG 62.50. Reviewed by Franklin Broeze JAMES S. CORUM. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. ix, 378. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by John H. Morrow, Jr. EPHRAIM MAISEL. The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1919-1926. Brighton:Sussex Academic Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 323. $54.95 (us); Reviewed by Briton C. Busch BÜLENT GÖKAY. A Clash of Empires: Turkey between Russian Bolshevism and British Imperialism, 1918-1923. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. NewYork: St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 268. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Briton C. Busch BRIAN G. MARTIN. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. x, 314. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Poshek Fu J. F. V. KEIGER. Raymond Poincaré. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 413. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Martin Thomas M. L. R. SMITH. Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 265. $18.95(us), paper. Reviewed by Alan O'Day PHILIPP GASSERT. Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung 1933-1945. Stuttg

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