Reviews of Book

Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World.Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (US). Reviewed by W. Warren WagarAlfred W. Crosby. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 206. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by William H. McneillEdwin G. Pulleyblank. Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China.Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, Variorum, 2002. Pp. xii, 312. $105.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicola Di CosmoSanjay Subrahmanyam. Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Chandra R. De SilvaSusan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter EdburyThomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 245. 860.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan ShepardHaim Beinart. The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. Pp. xv, 591. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-ArmestoH. G. Koenigsberger. Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 381. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Christine KooiMary Elizabeth Ailes. Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden.Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward FurgolAlastair Hamilton. Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age.London and Oxford: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 134. £60.00. Reviewed by Deborah HowardHARRY G. GELBER. Nations out of Empires: European Nationalism and the Transformation of Asia.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Fred HallidayLeah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 446. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by John CraigJeremy Black. European International Relations, 1648–1815.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 274. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jennifer MoriMlada Bukovansky. Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 255. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Norman HampsonPatricia Seed. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 299. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Sarah H. HillPatrick Griffin. The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 244. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by K. David MilobarThomas Philipp. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730–1831.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 299. $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by DINA Rizk KhouryDon H. Doyle. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question.Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 130. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Enrico Dal LagoCharles John Fedorak. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801–1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics.Akron: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 268. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. CooksonDáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, eds. Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts, and Consequences of the Act of Union.Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 270. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jim SmythKlaus Gallo. Great Britain and Argentina: From Invasion to Recognition, 1806-26.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vi, 195. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew S. ThompsonRory Muir. Salamanca 1812.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 322. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Thorburn HerzogWilliam Barr, ed. and annotated. From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836–1839.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 330. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by William R. MorrisonTimothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, eds. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 444. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David ClaytonJohn Mason Hart. Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp.xi, 677. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas SchoonoverJeremy Black. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975.Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 243. $19.95 (US)J paper; Jeremy Black, ed. European Warfare, 1815–2000.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vii, 247. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Craig GibsonPaul B. Miller. From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 277. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Martin CeadelDavid Healy. James G. Blaine and Latin America.Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 278. $39–95 (US). Reviewed by Edward P. CrapolRolf Hobson. Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea Power, and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875–1914.Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. x, 358. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by John BeelerRoderick R. McLean. Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890–1914.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 239. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by David FrenchPhilippe Chassaigne and Michael Dockrill, eds. Anglo-French Relations, 1898–1998: From Fashoda to Jospin.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 211. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Anthony AdamthwaiteRebecca E. Karl. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 314. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joan JudgeChristopher Mckee. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900–1945.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp.285. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey TillAndrew Mango. Atatürk.London: John Murray, 2001. Pp. xiii, 666. £18.00, paper. Reviewed by Frank TachauSusan Solomon. The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 383. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Bryan C. StoreyJaroslaw Suchoples. Finland and the United States, 1917–1919: The Early Years of Mutual Relations, trans. Tadeuz Z. Wolahski. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 221. $29.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David W. McFaddenDavid Henry Slavin. Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 300. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by †William B. CohenDavid French. Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany, 1919–1945.New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 319. 821.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by B. J. C. McKercherJoseph Moretz. The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xxi, 292. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Keith NeilsonFrances Gouda with Thus Brocades Zaalberg. American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920–1949.Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2002. Pp. 382. €31.90, paper. Reviewed by Gary R. HessGyörgy Péteri. Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921–1929, trans. Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder and Wayne: East European Monographs and Center for Hungarian Studies, 2002; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 199. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Jürgen NautzDavid Dutton. Neville Chamberlain.London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 245. £12.99 paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. MaioloSteven T. Ross, ed. US War Plans: 1938–1945. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2002. Pp. ix, 371. $89.95 (US) Reviewed by Allan R. MillettRadomir Luza with Christina Vella. The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 295. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Igor LukesNicholas Tarling. A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. WhiteAndrew J. Whitfield. Hong Kong, Empire, and the Anglo-American Alliance at War, 1941-45.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii, 266. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Chan Lau Kit-ChingJames McAllister. NO Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943–1954.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 283. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Frank NinkovichPeter C. Kent. The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII: The Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943–1950.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 321. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Owen ChadwickTim Jones. Postwar Counterinsurgency and the SAS, 1945–1952: A Special Type of Warfare.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xxii, 233. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Colin McInnesRichard Overy. Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945.New York and London: Viking, 2001. Pp. xxii, 650. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman J. W. GodaJoy Damousi. Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Grief in Postwar Australia.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 240. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Bruce ScatesSean M. Maloney. Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means, 1945-1970.St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265. $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond MortonArnold A. Offner. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 626. $37.95 (US) Reviewed by Andrew J. DunarFrank Heinlein. British Government Policy and Decolonisation, 1945–1963: Scrutinising the Official Mind.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xiii, 337- $57.50 (US). Reviewed by David GoldsworthyMatthew Connelly. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 400. $113.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Phillip C. NaylorMartin Schain, ed. The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiii, 297. $59.95 (US); Vibeke Sørensen. Denmark's Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan, 1947–1950, ed. Mogens Riidiger. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 360. $47.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Alan S. MilwardSumit Ganguly. Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947.New York: Columbia University Press; Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. Pp. 187. $18.50 (US), paper; C. Dasgupta. War and Diplomacy in Kashmir, 1947-48.New Delhi and Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2002. Pp. 239. $44.00 (US). Reviewed by Anita Inder SinghHubert Zimmermann. Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950–1971.Washington and New York: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 275. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald AbenheimJennifer Milliken. The Social Construction of the Korean War: Conflict and Its Possibilities.Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 258. $107.00 (CDN). Reviewed by K. M. FierkePercy Cradock. Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World.London: John Murray, 2002. Pp. xii, 351. £25.00. Reviewed by Richard J. AldrichThe Military History Institute Of Vietnam. Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975, trans. Merle L. Pribbenow; foreword by William J. Duiker. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 494. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert K. BrighamJeffrey Glen Giauque. Grand Designs and Visions of Unity: The Adantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955–1963.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 326. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Wolfram KaiserRobert D. Dean. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy.Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. x, 329. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Wesley T. WooleyPiero Gleijeses. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xix, 552. $57.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Wayne S. SmithM. E. Sarotte. Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Dátente, and Ostpolitik, 1969–1973.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 295. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Helga HaftendornWakaizumi Kei. The Best Course Available: A Personal Account of the Secret US Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations, ed. John Swenson-Wright. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Pp. x, 367. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugo DobsonDelia M. Boylan. Defusing Democracy: Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Sylvia MaxfieldAhmed Rashid. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 281. $24.00 (US). Reviewed by Virginia MartinFrançois Furet and Ernst Nolte. Fascism and Communism, trans. Katherine Golsan. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 98. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin KitchenMark R. Beissinger. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 503. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Taras KuzioElinor C. Sloan. The Revolution in Military Affairs: Implications for Canada and NATO.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 188. $24.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Joel J. SokolskyMichael Keren and Donald A. Sylvan, eds. International Intervention: Sovereignty versus Responsibility.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xi, 191. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nicholas OnufDarren G. Hawkins. International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile.Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 259. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Brian LovemanAkira Iriye. Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 246. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Chadwick F. Alger