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ANTHONY PAGDEN. Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvi, 548. £20.00. Reviewed by Michael CurtisJURGEN BRAUER and HUBERT VAN TUYLL. Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History.Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 403. $29.00 (US). Reviewed by Hew StrachanRAFIS ABAZOV. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia.Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; dist. Bolton, ON: H. B. Fenn. Pp. xvii, 124. $75.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter C. PerdueLUIGI LORETO. La grande strategia di Roma nell'età della Prima guerra punica (c.273-c.229 AC): L'inizio di un paradosso.Naples: Jovene Editore, 2007. Pp. xvi, 286. €35.00, paper. Reviewed by Maria Federica PetracciaBRUCE LINCOLN. Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib.Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 176. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Steven W. HirschNOAH FELDMAN. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State.Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 189. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by John O. VollLIUDPRAND OF CREMONA. The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona,trans., intro., and notes, Paola Squatriti. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 296. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Conrad LeyserDAVID NICOLLE. Crusader Warfare: I: Byzantium, Europe, and the Struggle for the Holy Land, 1050-1300 AD.London and New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xiv,3o6. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Malcolm C. BarberMICHAEL C. BROSE. Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire.Bellingham, WA: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 2007. Pp. xv, 348. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter JacksonPIETRO BEMBO. History of Venice: I: Books I–IV,ed. and trans. Robert W. Ulery Jr. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 357. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by James S. GrubbHEINZ SCHILLING. Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism.Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England, 2008. Pp. ix, 124. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter H. WilsonPAULA SUTTER FICHTNER. Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850.London: Reakdon Books, 2008; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 205. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Derek BealesLAURA E. MATTHEW and MICHEL R. OUDIJK, eds. Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 349. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Christon I. ArcherTONY CLAYDON. Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 370. $36.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Brendan SimmsJOHN GRENIER. The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 270. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John G. ReidPHILLIP BUCKNER, ed. Canada and the British Empire.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 294. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Barbara J. MessamoreLAIRD W. BERGAD. The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 314. $22.99 (US) paper. Reviewed by Luis A. GonzálezCHRISTOPHER L. MILLER. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 571. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ralph A. AustenGABRIEL B. PAQUETTE. Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and Its Empire, 1759–1808.Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; dist. Bolton, ON: H. B. Fenn. Pp. xi, 244. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. AnnaUSSAMA MAKDISI. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East.Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 262. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugh GoddardMARY GRIBBIN and JOHN GRIBBIN. Flower Hunters.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 332. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by John M. MacKenzieHELMUT WALSER SMITH. The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. vii, 246. $22.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stefan BergerJAMES ONLEY. The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxv, 352. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. BlythHEINZ DUCHHARDT, ed. Stein: Die sädten Jahre des preuβischen Reformers, 1815–1831.Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. Pp. x, 214. €29.90. Reviewed by William D. GodseyCIRO PAOLETTI. A Military History of Italy.Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xiv, 269. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John GoochALFONSO SCIROCCO. Garibaldi, Citizen of the World: A Biography,trans. Allan Cameron. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 442. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David LavenCHRISTOPHER HERBERT. War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma.Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 334. $35.00 (US); MILES OGBORN. Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company.Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 318. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas M. PeersWILLIAM BEINART and LOTTE HUGHES. Environment and Empire.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 395. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Vaclav SmilWILLIAM J. HAUSMAN, PETER HERTNER, and MIRA WILKINS. Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 487. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Barry EichengreenLORNA LLOYD. Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006.Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xix,353. €129.00. Reviewed by John W. YoungNANCY M. WINGFIELD. Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 353. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Melissa FeinbergDAVID S. FOGLESONG. The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire’: The Crusade for a ‘Free Russia’ since 1881.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp- x, 352- $34.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman SaulXU GUOQI. Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 377. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Allen GuttmannAIMS MCGUINNESS. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush.Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 249. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael ConniffEUGENE SECUNDA and TERENCE P. MORAN. Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror.Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. Pp. 231. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Nancy SnowD. J. WALKER. Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s.Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. 158. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Catherine DaviesDAVID SUNDERLAND. Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914–74.Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2007. Pp. 296. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Sarah StockwellMARTIN THOMAS. Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914.Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 428. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John FerrisMARK VON HAGEN. War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918.Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 122. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by David M. MarplesMITCHELL A. YOCKELSON. Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp. xix, 308. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David FrenchJONATHAN REED WINKLER. Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 347. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. CohenJOAN HOFF. A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. v, 308. $24.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank NinkovichMIKLOS ZEIDLER. Ideas on Territorial Revision in Hungary, 1920–1945,trans. Thomas J. and Helen DeKornfeld. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs and Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies, 2007; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 440. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Bennett KovrigJERZY BORZECKI. The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921i and the Creation of Interwar Europe.New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 401. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jabara CarleyRASHID KHALIDI. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood.Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007. Pp. xlii, 281. £16.99. Reviewed by MAry C. WilsonMAREK KORNAT. Polityka Rownowagi, 1934–1939: Polska miedzy Wschodem a Zachodem.Cracow: Wydawnictwo Arcana, 2007. Pp. 499. 35zl. Reviewed by Marta Magdalena StachurskaMICHAEL PETROU. Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. xxii, 282. $85.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Patrick H. BrennanCHRISTINA TWOMEY. Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 262. $31.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bob MooreDAVID A. MESSENGER. L'Espagne Republicaine: French Policy and Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France.Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 196. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by Martin ThomasYUMA TOTANI. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard Asia Research Center, 2008; dist. Harvard University Press. Pp. xiv, 335. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Janice MatsumuraSIMEI QING. From Allies to Enemies: Visions of Modernity, Identity, and US-China Diplomacy,1945–196o. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 396. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles W. HayfordPATRICK KLEEDEHN. Die Rückkehr auf den Weltmarkt: Die Internationalisierung der Bayer AG Leverkusen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Jahre 1961.Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 385. €50.00, paper. Reviewed by Raymond G. StokesIRA CHERNUS. Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 307. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Seth JacobsLORENZ M. LÜTHI. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World.Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 375. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gilbert RozmanP. R. CHARI, PERVAIZ IQBAL CHEEMA, and STEPHEN P. COHEN. Four Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia.Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2008. Pp. x, 252. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Sumit GangulyGARY R. HESS. Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War.Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009. Pp. xii, 218. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Marilyn B. YoungSCOTT KAUFMAN. Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration.DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. Pp. 298. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by Nancy MitchellDONALD J. SAVOIE. Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom.Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 441. $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by John RedwoodANDREAS HERBERG-ROTHE. Clausewitz's Puzzle: The Political Theory of War.New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 194. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Antulio J. Echevarria IIGORDON A. CRAIG. Tact and Intelligence: Essays on Diplomatic History and International Relations,ed. Bruce Thompson, Carolyn Halladay, and Donald Abenheim. Palo Alto, CA: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2008; dist. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Pp. xvi, 342. $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Roger Chickering