Reviews of Books

MICHAEL RICHTER. Ireland and Her Neighbours in the Seventh Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 256. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Dáibhí Ó CróinínTIMOTHY BROOK and GREGORY BLUE, eds. China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 291. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Gang DengANDREAS KIESEWETTER. Die Anfänge der Regierung König Karls II. von Anjou (1278–1295): Das Königreich Neapel, die Grafschaft Provence und der Mittelmeerraum zu Ausgang des 13. Jahrhunderts. Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 1999. Pp. 650. DM 168.00. Reviewed by Jean DunbabinPETER JACKSON. The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 367. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Jos GommansARND REITEMEIER. Auβenpolitik im Spätmittelalter: Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen dem Reich und England, 1377–1422. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1999. Pp. 572. DM 98.00. Reviewed by Jens RöhrkastenTHOMAS H. B. SYMONS, ed., with the assistance of STEPHEN ALSFORD and CHRIS KITZAN. Meta Incognita: A Discourse of Discovery: Martin Frobisher's Arctic Expeditions, 1576–1578: Volume I. Pp. xlvi, 298; Volume II. Pp. vi, 299–636. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1999. $45.00 (CDN) for set; paper. Reviewed by G. V. ScammellPIETER EMMER. The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880: Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, Variorum, 1998. Pp. xi, 283. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by B. W. HigmanNABIL MATAR. Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 268. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Edhem EldemALAN FROST and JANE SAMSON, eds. Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 334. $27.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by I. C. CampbellL. M. CULLEN. The Brandy Trade under the Ancien Régime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 284. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul ButelMARIANNE S. WOKECK. Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. xxx, 319. $21.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by P. C. EmmerSEYMOUR DRESCHER. From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 454. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin KleinMICHAEL D. PEARLMAN. Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999; dist. London: Eurospan. Pp. xi, 441. £35.95. Reviewed by Jerry CooperKIRSTY CARPENTER. Refugees of the French Revolution: Émigrés in London, 1789–1802. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 259. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Simon BurrowsEMMA VINCENT MACLEOD. A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars against Revolutionary France, 1792–1802. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. viii, 240. $76.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. CooksonKOSTAS P. KOSTIS, ed. Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. vi, 255. $86.95 (US). Reviewed by Guy VanthemscheLATA MANI. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 246. $18.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert Eric FrykenbergKENNETH D. LEHMAN. Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 296. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by William P. StedmanPETER BALDWIN. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830–1930. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 581. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul SlackCHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT-NOWARA. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833–1874. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 239. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Franklin W. KnightDAVID WALKER. Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850–1939. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999. Pp. xv,312. $29.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by Peter PhelpsFAREED ZAKARIA. From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 199. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard RosecranceECKARD MICHELS. Deutsche in der FremdenUgion, 1870–1965: Mythen und Realitäten. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1999. Pp. 362. DM 68.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey WawroRAYMOND E. DUMETT. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 396. $19.95 (US)> paper; DIANE FROST. Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 278. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Ray A. KeaPAUL CHARLES MERKLEY. The Politics of Christian Zionism, 1891–1948. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. x, 223. $52.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Rory MillerAMIRA SONBOL, trans, and ed. The Last Khedive of Egypt: Memoirs of Abbas Hilmi II. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1998. Pp. xiii,390. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Israel GershoniFRANCIS ANTHONY BOYLE. Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898–1922). Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 220. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eileen ScullyDAVID WOLFF. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898–1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 255. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by R. Edward GlatfelterROBERT BICKERS. Britain in China: Community, Culture, and Colonialism, 1900–1949. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xii, 276. £45.00. Reviewed by D. W. ClaytonSUSAN STRASSER, CHARLES MCGOVERN, and MATTHIAS JUDT, eds. Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 477. $59.95 (US), cloth; $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joy ParrJOANNA BOURKE. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 509. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by S. P. MacKenzieNICHOLAS A. LAMBERT. Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 410. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by C. I. HamiltonSUSAN R. GRAYZEL. Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xix, 334. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Margaret R. HigonnetTRUDI TATE. Modernism, History, and the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. vii, 196. $27.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Robert L. NelsonSTÉPHANE COURTOIS, NICOLAS WERTH, JEAN-LOUIS PANNÉ, ANDRZEJ PACZKOWSKI, KAREL BARTOŠEK, and JEAN-LOUIS MARGOLIN, eds. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, trans. Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 858. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Peter KonecnyCECELIA LYNCH. Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 238. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by James HintonPHILIPP HEYDE. Das Ende der Reparationen: Deutschland, Frankreich und der Youngplan, 1929–1932. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1998. Pp. 506. DM 128.00. Reviewed by Andrew J. CrozierB. J. C MCKERCHER. Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 403. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Warren F. KimballSTEFAN HELL. Der Mandschurei-Konflikt: Japan, China und der Völkerbund, 1931 bis 1933. Tübingen: Universitas Verlag Tübingen, 1999. Pp. 285. DM 48.00, paper. Reviewed by Manfred JonasTHOMAS W. ZEILER. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 267. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Emily S. RosenbergROBERT STRADLING. The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39: Crusades in Conflict. Manchester: Mandolin, 1999; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 288. $79.95 (US); FEARGHAL MCGARRY. Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War. Cork: Cork University Press, 1999. Pp. 326. IR £45.00, cloth; IR £15.95, paper. Reviewed by Antonio Cazorla-SánchezYOSSI KATZ. Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xii, 209. $49.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Motti GolaniMICHAEL DOCKRILL. British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936–40. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 212. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John CharmleyMICHAEL JABARA CARLEY. 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999. Pp. xxv, 321. $28.95 (US). Reviewed by Talbot ImlayDAVID M. GLANTZ. Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. x, 421. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Mary R. HabeckWILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK. France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944–1954. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 291. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anne DeightonKEES BOTERBLOEM. Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945–1953. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 435. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by J. Arch GettyCAROLINE WIEDMER. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 244. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. BosworthCOSTAS MELAKOPIDES. Pragmatic Idealism: Canadian Foreign Policy, 1945–1995. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 241. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John EnglishPAOLO TRIPODI. The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu: From Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 219. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by I. M. LewisYONG-PYO HONG. State Security and Regime Security: President Syngman Rhee and the Insecurity Dilemma in South Korea, 1953–60. New York: St Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. x, 219. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by William StueckROBERT R. BOWIE and RICHARD H. IMMERMAN. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 317. $74.95 (CDN); RICHARD H. IMMERMAN. John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in US Foreign Policy. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 221. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James L. GormlyPHILIP MURPHY. Alan Lennox-Boyd: A Biography. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 276. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by John RamsdenDONALD R. CULVERSON. Contesting Apartheid: US Activism, 1960–1987. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 177. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas BorstelmannSTEPHEN G. RABE. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 257. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen J. RandallJUDITH A. KLINGHOFFER. Vietnam, Jews, and the Middle East: Unintended Consequences. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 232. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter L. HahnROBERT K. BRIGHAM. Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 215. $35.00 (US); ROBERT J. MCMAHON. The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 276. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Philip E. CattonDOUGLAS A. BORER. Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 261. $57.50 (US), cloth; $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Odd Arne WestadANDRÉ SZÁSZ. The Road to European Monetary Union. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 258. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Scott LucasKENNETH W. STEIN. Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xix, 324. $24.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by William B. QuandtSTEPHEN J. MORRIS. Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 315. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Carlyle A. ThayerSTUART CROFT, JOHN REDMOND, G. WYN REES, and MARK WEBBER. The Enlargement of Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xv, 188. £40.00. Reviewed by Bo PeterssonTORBJØRN L. KNUTSEN. The Rise and Fall of World Orders. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. x, 324. $24.95 (US): paper. Reviewed by William R. ThompsonMARK PECENY. Democracy at the Point of Bayonets. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 254. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David P. ForsytheTHOMAS R. MOCKAITIS. Peace Operations and Intrastate Conflict: The Sword or the Olive Branch?Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xii, 166. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. DiehlROBERT MANDEL. Deadly Transfers and the Global Playground: Transnational Security Threats in a Disorderly World. Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xiv, 139. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Frederic S. PearsonLUCIAN M. ASHWORTH and DAVID LONG, eds. New Perspectives on International Functionalism. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 181. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Margaret P. KarnsZACHARY SELDEN. Economic Sanctions as Instruments of American Foreign Policy. Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. x, 147. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by William H. KaempferJOANNE GOWA. Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 136. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Randolph M. Siverson