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J. F. LAZENBY. The First Punic War: A Military History.London: UCL Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 205. £12.95, paper. Reviewed by Richard E. MitchellBRENT D. SHAW. Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa.Alder-shot: Variorum, 1995; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. Pp. xii, 338. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by C. R. WhitakkerGEOFF KING. Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies.New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 216. $39.95(ZUS), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman J.W. ThrowerPATRICIA SEED. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 197. $49.95 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gwindler WilliamsPAUL DOUGLAS LOCKHART. Denmark in the Thirty Years War, 1618–1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State.Selingsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by John TheibaultPETER H. WILSON. War, State, and Society in Wiirttemberg, 1677–1793. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 294. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Franz A. J. SzaboJOHN DUNMORE, ed. The Journal of Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785–1788.Volume I. London: Hakluyt Society, 1994. Pp. ccxl, 232. £35.00; Volume II: 1995. Pp. vi, 613. £35.00. Reviewed by Alan FrostARTHUR L. STINCHCOMBE. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 361. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by David EltisBRIAN BOND. The Pursuit of Victory: From Napoleon to Saddam Hussein.New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 240. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Dennis E. ShowalterJUDITH EWELL. Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemisphere to Petroleum's Empire.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. x, 267. $50.00 (US), cloth; $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Thomas SchoonoverS. C. M. PAINE. Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier.Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. xxi, 417. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. WhiteOLAF ROSE. Carl von Clausewitz. Wirkungsgeschichte seines Werkes in Rußiland und der Sowjetunion 1836–1991.Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1995. Pp. vi, 275. DM78. Reviewed by Daniel MoranWINFRIED BAUMGART, ed. Englische Akten zur Geschichte des Krimkriegs.Band 3. 3. Dezember 1854 bisg. September 1855.Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1994. Pp. 960. DM 378. Reviewed by Ann Pottinger SaabLOUIS THIERCELIN. Travels in Oceania: Memoirs of a Whaling Ship's Doctor, 1866, trans. Christiane Mortelier. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 350. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Colin NewburyROBERT T. HARRISON. Gladstone's Imperialism in Egypt: Techniques of Domination.Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. 184. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Marvin ScwartzS. BERNARD THOMAS. Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 416. $34.95 (US); Reviewed by A. Hamish IonLAWRENCE D. KESSLER. The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China, 1895–1951. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 212. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish IonVAHAKN N. DADRIAN. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus.Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995. Pp. xxviii, 452. $39.95 (US); Reviewed by Dennis R. PapazianMANOUG JOSEPH SOMAKIAN. Empires in Conflict: Armenia and the Great Powers, i895–1920.London: I. B. Tauris, 1995; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 276. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Dennis R. PapazianDAVID LONG. Towards a New Liberal Internationalism: The International Theory of J. A. Hobson.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 273. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter CainJ. P. HARRIS. Men, Ideas, and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903–1939.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 342. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian Holden ReidSTANLEY G. PAYNE. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 613. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by H. A. TurnerASHER SUSSER and ARYEH SHMUELEVITZ, eds. The Hashemites in the Modern Aral World: Essays in Honour of the Late Professor Uriel Dann.London: Frank Cass 1995; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xv, 246. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Howard J. DooleyG. H. BENNETT. British Foreign Policy during the Curzon Period, 1919–1924.New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 243. $65.00 (US); Reviewed by Keith NeilsonDAVID S. FOGLESONG. America's Secret War against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1717–1720.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. x, 386. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith NeilsonGUNTER BERGHAUS, ed. Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945.Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. vi, 315. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stanley G. PayneGORDON W. MORRELL. Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: Anglo-Soviet Relations and the Metro-Vickers Crisis.Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 204. $34–95 (CDN). Reviewed by Teddy J. UldricksDIETMAR ROTHERMUND. The Global Impact of the Great Depression.London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. xi, 180. £11.99, paper. Reviewed by Barry EichengreenCLYDE SANGER. Malcolm MacDonald: Bringing an End to Empire.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 498. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John W. CellSTEPHEN G. FRITZ. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Pp. x, 299. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Armin E. MruckJÜRGEN HEIDEHNG and CHRISTOF MAUCH, eds. American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History.Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 457. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Clay LargeMATTHEW JONES. Britain, the United Sates, and the Mediterranean War, 1942–44New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 293. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren F. KimballG. E. MAGUIRE. Anglo-American Policy towards the Free French.New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. x, 210. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. YoungMOSHE GAT. Britain and Italy, 1943–1949: The Decline of British Influence.Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 230. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan CasselsKENNETH P. WERRELL. Blankets of Fire: US Bombers over Japan during Work War II.Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 350. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Conrad C. CraneGLEN JEANSONNE. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 264. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Harriet Hyman AlonsoMICHAELJ. HOGAN, ed. Hiroshima in History and Memory.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 238. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. BosworthFREDERICK B. PIKE. FDR'S Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Tears of Generally Gentle Chaos.Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Pp. xxvi,394. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. RandallNORMAN M. NAIMARK. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone 0 Occupation, 1945–1949.Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press 1995. Pp. xv, 586. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John EriksonDOMINIQUE-D. JUNOD. The Imperiled Red Cross and the Palestine-Eretz-Yisrael Conflict, 1945–1952.London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 344. $76.50 (US). Reviewed by David P. ForsytheERIC ROMAN. Hungary and the Victor Powers, 1945–1950.New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x,342. $49–95 (US). Reviewed by Bennett KovrigGUNTHER MAI. Der Alliierte Kontrollrat in Deutschland 1945–1948. Alliierte Einheit - deutsche Teilung?Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1995. Pp. xiii, 536. DM 198. Reviewed by G¨nter BischofFRANCIS H. HELLER and JOHN R. GILLINGHAM. The United States and the Integration of Europe: Legacies of the Postwar Era.New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. 410. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. MilwardDAVID MAYERS. The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy.New York: Oxforc University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 335. $51.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith EaglesM. SRINIVAS CHARY. The Eagle and the Peacock: US Foreign Policy toward India since Independence.Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 194. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Anita Inder SinghSTEVEN HUGH LEE. Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam, and the Origins of th Cold War in Asia, 1945–1954.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 295. $39–95 (CDN), cloth; $19.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by R. B. SmithSHU GUANG ZHANG. Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950–1953.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. Pp. xiii,338. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael H. HuntBURTON I. KAUFMAN. The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy.New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. Pp. xvii, 291. $26.95 (US); Reviewed by Douglas LittleBONNIE F. SAUNDERS. The United States and Arab Nationalism: The Syrian Case, 1953–1960.Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. x, 115. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Douglas LittleCHEN JIAN. China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation.New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 339. $42.00 (US); Reviewed by Kenneth G. HamburgerDENNIS E. SHOWALTER and JOHN G. ALBERT, eds. An American Dilemma: Vietnam, 1964–1973.Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1993. Pp. ix, 203. $22.95 (vs). paper. Reviewed by Kenneth G. HamburgerTONY CHAFER and BRIAN JENKINS, eds. France: From the Cold War to the New World Order.London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. xi, 245. £40.00. Reviewed by Samir SaulSAKI DOCKRILL. Eisenhower's Mew-Look National Security Policy, 1953–61.New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 400. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Tony ShawMORDECHAI BAR-ON. The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back, 1955–1957London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xi, 404. £30.00. Reviewed by Motti GolantiG. WYN REES. Anglo-American Approaches to Alliance Security, 1955–60.London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiv, 214. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian ClarkGARY D. RAWNSLEY. Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956–64.London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 224. $59–95 (US). Reviewed by Asa BriggsPETER J. ROMAN. Eisenhower and the Missile Gap.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 264. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by George H. QuesterJOHN C. AUSLAND. Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Berlin-Cuba Crisis, 1961-1964.Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 239. $29.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Ned LebowWILLIAM CONRAD GIBBONS. The US Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships: Part IV: July 1965–January 1968.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 969. $24.95 (US), paper; Reviewed by R. B. SmithLLOYD C. GARDNER. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam.Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Pp. xv, 610. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by R. B. SmithMORDECHAI BAR-ON. In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement.Washington D.C.: US Institute of Peace Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 470. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Benny MorrisMARK GALEOTTI. Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War.London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. ix, 242. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Odd Arne WestadKEMAL H. KARPAT, ed. Turkish Foreign Policy: Recent Developments.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Pp. 213. $27.00 (US). Reviewed by Dilek BarasKEITH NEILSON and ELIZABETH JANE ERRINGTON, eds. Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy.New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. viii, 236. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Eric GroveGEOFF SIMONS. UN Malaise: Power, Problems, and Realpolitik.London: Macmillan, 1995; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xx, 356. £40.00; Reviewed by Paul F. DeihlJAMES H. ALLAN. Peacekeeping: Outspoken Observations by a Field Officer.Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xvii, 200. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. DeihlPHILIP ZELIKOW and CONDOLEEZZA RICE. Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft.Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 493. $35.00 (US). 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Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 232. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Randolph M. SiversonNORIO NAKA. Predicting Outcomes in United States-Japan Trade Negotiations: The Political Process of the Structural Impediments Initiative.Westport: Quorum Books, 1996. Pp. xvii, 269. $59–95 (US). Reviewed by Renée Marlin-BennettSTEPHEN M. WALT. Revolution and War.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 365. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Deborah Welch LarsonJONATHAN MERCER. Reputation and International Politics.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 236. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Jack S. Levy

The articles highlights activities and tourist attractions for travelers traveling with their children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many of the city's top attractions are within walking distance of the meeting and each other. It abounds in museums both big and small, as well as several historic houses.