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Cartledge, Paul, Ranger, Terence, Braund, David, Shepard, Jonathan, Treadgold, Warren, Shatzmiller, Joseph, Bradbury, Jim, Mackenzie, John, Peers, Douglas, Liebel-Weckowicz, Helen, Perry, John, Steele, Ian, Trani, Eugene, Craton, Michael, Severn, John, Connelly, Owen, Rothenberg, Gunther, Koschmann, J. Victor, Ashton, Rosemary, Newbury, Colin, Saab, Ann Pottinger, Ferris, Norman, Dosal, Paul, Wooley, Wesley, Betts, Raymond, Johnson, Robert David, Halpern, Paul, Wilcox, Craig, Herwig, Holger, Jacobson, Jon, Marks, Sally, Tarling, Nicholas, Deshmukh, Marion, Lowe, Peter, Haslam, Jonathan, Conroy, Hilary, Brands, H. W., Mackenzie, S. P., Rodina, Matthew, Beckett, Ian, Katz, Steven, Gillingham, John, Lora, Ronald, Little, Douglas, Harbutt, Fraser, Buteux, Paul, Cell, John, Aronsen, Lawrence, Canning, Paul, Holland, Robert, Carroll, Francis, Frank, Willard, Adamec, Ludwig, Gann, L. H., McNeill, William, Donaghy, Greg, Holden, Robert, Conro, Hilary, Thomson, Janice, and Modelski, George
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PERICLES GEORGES. Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Xenophon. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 358. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul CartledgeELIZABETH ISICHEI. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. London: SPCK, 1995. Pp. xi, 420. £25.00, paper. Reviewed by Terence RangerTHOMAS S. BURNS. Barbarians within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 AD. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi, 417. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David BraundTIMOTHY S. MILLER and JOHN NESBITT, eds. Peace and War in Byzantium: Essays in Honor of George T. Dennis, SJ. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 282. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan ShepardCYRIL MANGO and GILBERT DAGRON, eds. Constantinople and Its Hinterland. Aldershot, UK: Variorum; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1995. Pp. xiv, 426. $72.50 (US). Reviewed by Warren TreadgoldSTEPHEN P. BENSCH. Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 457, $64.95 (US); Reviewed by Joseph ShatzmillerSANDRA BENJAMIN. The World of Benjamin of Tudela: A Medieval Mediterranean Travelogue. Rudierford: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press; dist. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1995. Pp. 325. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Joseph ShatzmillerJOHN GILLINGHAM. Richard Coeur de Lion: Kingship, Chivalry, and War in the Twelfth Century. London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 266. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Jim BradburyRICHARD H. GROVE. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 540. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by John M. MackenzieT. A. HEATHCOTE. The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 288. $40.00. Reviewed by Douglas M. PeersROBERT I. FROST. After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiv, 209. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Helen Liebel-WeckowiczJOS J. L. GOMMANS. The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, c.1710-1780. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. Pp. xv, 219. $65.75 (US). Reviewed by John R. PerryCOLIN J. GALLOWAY. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 327. $59.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ian K. SteeleDONALD D. JOHNSON. The United States in the Pacific: Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899. Westport: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xviii, 225. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Eugene P. TraniROBERT E. LUSTER. The Amelioration of the Slaves in the British Empire, 1790-1833. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. Pp. xi, 186. $38.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael CratonJOHN LAWRENCE TONE. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 239. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John K. SevernCHARLES J. ESDAILE. The Wars of Napoleon. London and New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. xii, 417. £14.99, paper. Reviewed by Owen ConnellyDAVID G. CHANDLER. On the Napoleonic Wars: Collected Essays. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1994. Pp. 270. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Gunther E. RothenbergJOSHUA A. FOGEL. The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. vii, 190. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. Victor KoschmannPANIKOS PANAYI. German Immigrants in Britain during the igth Century, 11815-1914. Oxford and Providence: Berg, 1995. Pp. xx, 301. $52.95 (US). Reviewed by Rosemary AshtonDAVID NORTHRUP. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 186. $49.95 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Colin NewburyWINFRIED BAUMGART, ed. Englische Akten zur Geschichte des Krimkriegs. Band 4: 10. September 1855 bis 23. Juli 1856. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1988. Pp. 1,088. DM 360. Reviewed by Ann Pottinger SaabROBERT E. MAY, ed. The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 169. $12.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman B. FerrisPAUL W. DRAKE, ed. Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America from the i8gos to the Present. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1995. Pp. xxxiii, 270. $40.00 (US), clodi; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul J. DosalGORDON MARTEL, ed. American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993. London and New York: Roudedge, 1995. Pp. xii, 267. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Wesley T. WooleyWILLIAM A. HOISINGTON. Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 276. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Raymond F. BettsDANIELA ROSSINI, ed. From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Foreign Policy. Keele: Keele University Press (Ryburn), 1995. Pp. 184. £15.00, paper. Reviewed by Robert David JohnsonMALCOLM H. MURFETT, ed. The First Sea Lords: From Fisher to Mountbatten. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xiii, 313. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul G. HalpernJOAN BEAUMONT, ed. Australia's War, 1914-18. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin Australia, 1995. Pp. xxii, 195. $19.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by Craig WilcoxMICHAEL L. HADLEY. Count Not the Dead: The Popular Image of the German Submarine. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 253. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Holger H. HerwigYURI DYAKOV and TATYANA BUSHUYEVA. The Red Army and the Wehrmacht: How the Soviets Militarized Germany, 1922-33, and Paved the Way for Fascism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995. Pp. 348. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Jon JacobsonMAARTEN L. PEREBOOM. Democracies at the Turning Point: Britain, France, and the End of the Postwar Order, 1928-1933. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. Pp. xiii, 239. $62.95 (US). Reviewed by Sally MarksSIMON C. SMITH. British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence, 1930-1957. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 234. $45.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Nicholas TarlingCLAUDENA M. SKRAN. Refugees in Inter-War Europe: The Emergence of a Regime. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 324. $94.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Marion F. DeshmukhANTONY BEST. Britain, Japan, and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-41. London and New York: Roudedge/LSE, 1995. Pp. xii, 260. £40.00. Reviewed by Peter LoweR. C. RAACK. Stalin's Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 265. $45.00 (US); Reviewed by Jonathan HaslamCAROLINE KENNEDY-PIPE. Stalin's Cold War: Soviet Strategies in Europe, 1943 to 1956. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. 218. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jonathan HaslamALAN J. LEVINE. The Pacific War: Japan versus the Allies. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. ix, 200. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Hilary ConroyDENNIS KUX. Estranged Democracies: India and the United States, 1941-1991. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994. Pp. xxix, 514. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by H. W. BrandsRON ROBIN. The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 217. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by S. P. MackenzieCARL A. CHRISTIE, with Fred Hatch. Ocean Bridge: The History of the RAF Ferry Command. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 458. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Matthew E. Rodina, Jr.S. P. MACKENZIE. The Home Guard: A Military and Political History. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 262. $45.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian F. W. BeckettERIC MARKUSEN and DAVID KOPF. The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 354. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Steven J. KatzCLEMENS WURM, ed. Western Europe and Germany: The Beginnings of European Integration, 1945-1960. Oxford and Washington: Berg, 1994. Pp. xi, 271. $54.95 (US); Reviewed by John GillinghamCHIARELLA ESPOSITO. America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1960. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. xxxii, 226. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by John GillinghamJOHN EHRMAN. The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 241. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald LoraSCOTT L. BILLS. The Libyan Arena: The United States, Great Britain, and the Council of Foreign Ministers, 1945-1948. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 209. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas LittlePIERRE DE SENARCLENS. From Yalta to the Iron Curtain: The Great Powers and the Origins of the Cold War, trans. Amanda Pingree. Providence: Berg, 1995. Pp. x, 290. $45.95 (US). Reviewed Fraser J. HarbuttJOHN S. DUFFIELD. Power Rules: The Evolution of NATO's Conventional Force Posture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 386. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul ButeuxJOHN O'REGAN. From Empire to Commonwealth: Reflections on a Career in Britain's Overseas Service. London and New York: Radcliffe Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 196. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by John W. CellHECTOR MACKENZIE, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: Volume xv: 1949. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1995. Pp. xlii, 1,870. $99.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence AronsenPHILIP MURPHY. Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951-1964. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 259. $94.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Paul CanningANTHONY CLAYTON. The Wars of French Decolonization. London and New York. Longman, 1994. Pp. x, 234. £32.00, cloth; £11.99, paper. Reviewed by Robert HollandANDREW J. WILSON. Irish America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968-1995. Washington: Cadiolic University of America Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 322. $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Francis M. CarrollPETER GOLD. A Stone in Spain's Shoe: The Search for a Solution to the Problem of Gibraltar. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 230. £14.50. Reviewed by Willard C. Frank, Jr.M. HASSAN KAKAR. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. x, 377. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ludwig W. AdamecRAN GREENSTEIN. Genealogies of Conflict: Class, Identity, and State in Palestine/ Israel and South Africa. Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England, 1995. Pp. ix,307. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by L. H. GannGERARD DELANTY. Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 187. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by William H. McNeillJOHN HERD THOMPSON and STEPHEN J. RANDALL. Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 387. $22.95 (CDN). Reviewed byDAVID W. DENT, ed. US-Latin American Policy-making: A Reference Handbook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xxxi, 555. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert H. HoldenROBERT DAVID JOHNSON, ed. On Cultural Ground: Essays in International History. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1994. Pp. 240. $19.95 (US); paper. Reviewed by Hilary ConroyHENDRIK SPRUYT. The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 288. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Janice E. ThomsonDAVID JABLONSKY. Paradigm Lost? Transition and the Search for a New World Order. Westport: Praeger, 1995. Pp. x, 130. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by George Modelski
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