Balancing pressures: the politics of governing the European economy

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The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction. By Melvin Richter (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), vii + 204 pp., £ 35 cloth. The Life of Adam Smith. By Ian Simpson Ross (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995) xxviii + 495 pp. £25.00 cloth. Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust. Edited by Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1996) xiv + 271 pp. $60.00 cloth. The Making of Portuguese Democracy. By Kenneth Maxwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 250 pp. £14.95/$19.95 paper. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815. By Ken Alder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xvi + 476 pp. $59.50/£45 cloth. The Wars of Eduard Shevardnaze. By Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman (Unversity Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press, 1997), xxiii + 331 pp. $29.95/£26.95 cloth. The Legacy of the French Revolution. Edited by Ralph C. Hancock and L. Gary Lambert (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), viii + 299 pp. $19.95 paper. Suffering and the Remedy of Art. By Harold Schweizer (State University of New York Press, 1997), xii +211 pp. $17.95 paper. Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre‐Revolutionary Baden. By Dagmar Herzog (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), x + 252 pp. $49.50/£42.50 cloth, $16.95/£13.95 paper. In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion. By Tomoko Masuzawa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 223 pp. $15.95 paper. Courtship, Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modern England. By Richard Adair (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), ix + 273 pp. £40 cloth. Correlation and Regression Analysis: A Historian's Guide. By Thomas J. Archdeacon (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), xxi + 352 pp. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Unified Theories of Cognition. By Allen Newell (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), xiii + 549 pp. $19.95 paper. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution. By Peter Dear (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), xii + 290 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The case of Philip Melanchthon. By Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xv + 246 pp. $59.95/£35.00 cloth. Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics. By Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, and Thomas E. Uebel (Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xii + 288 pp. $59.95/£35.00 cloth. Aramis or The Love of Technology. By Bruno Latour. Translated by Catherine Porter (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), x + 314 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide. Translated and edited by Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), xi + 435 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Europe's Economy Looks East: Implications for Germany and the European Union. Edited by Stanley W. Black (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xvi + 363 pp. £45.00/$ 64.95 cloth. The Transformation of Capitalist Society. By Zellig S. Harris (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), xiii + 245 pp. £19.50 paper. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland. By William Ian Miller (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997), xii + 407 pp. $17.95 paper. From Virgil to Vietnam: The Founding Legend of Western Civilization. By Richard Waswo (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997), xvi + 356 pp. n.p.g. cloth. Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Edited by Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, and Maire Jaanus (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), xv + 291 pp. $16.95 paper. Nature and the Idea of a Man‐Made World: An Investigation into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment. By Norman Crowe (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995 hardback, 1997 paper), 270 pp. $17.50 paper. The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism and Degeneracy at the Fin de Siècle. By Kelly Hurley (Cambridge University Press, 1996), xii + 203 pp. £30.00 $49.95 cloth. Russia's Constitutional Revolution: Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy 1985–1996. By Robert B. Ahdieh (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), viii + 255 pp. £26.95 $30.00 cloth, £13.50 $14.95 paper. Hunters and Collectors: the Antiquarian Imagination in Australia. By Tom Griffiths (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xiv + 416 pp. £45.00/$64.95 cloth. Persecution, Extermination, Literature. By Sem Dresden, trans. by Henry G. Schogt (University of Toronto Press 1995), viii + 237 pp. N. America $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper, Europe $54 cloth, $2.55 paper. Essays on the Anthropology of Reason. By Paul Rabinow (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1996), vxii + 190 pp. $49.50 £40.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. By Charles S. Maier (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xx + 441 pp. $29.95 cloth. History: What & Why?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. By Beverley Southgate (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), xii + 167 pp. £11.99 paper. Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France. By Jeffrey Mehlman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xi + 262 pp. $59.95 cloth. Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science. By Stacia E. Zabusky (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), xii + 257 pp. $17.95 paper/$49.50 cloth. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years. By John Chapple (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997), xviii + 492 pp. £25.00 cloth. Adam Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edited by Fania Oz‐Salzberger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xxxv + 283 pp. £37.50/$54.95 cloth. Greek Heroine Cults. By Jennifer Larson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995) xv + 235 pp., £33.50 cloth, £16.00 paper. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea 1854–1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie (Oxford: Mandolin, 1997), xx + 326 pp. £9.00 paper. A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence. By Jeffrey Burton Russell (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), xv + 220 pp. $24.95 cloth. Heidegger's Silence. By Berel Lang (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996), xi + 129 pp. $19.95 cloth. Simon de Montfort. By J. R. Maddicott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xxiii + 404 pp., 14.95/ $24.95 paper. Communities of Violence: Persecutions of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), viii + 301 pp. $29.95/£23.95, cloth.

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ERIC L.JONES. Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 297. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Harold James LINDSAY ALLEN. The Persian Empire: A History. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Tuplin GWYN MORGAN. 6g AD: The Year of the Four Emperors. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi,322. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Barbara Levick BRUCE L. BATTEN. Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 183. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Mark J. Hudson CARTER VAUGHN FINDLEY. The Turks in World History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 300. $26.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Colin Heywood NORMAN HOUSLEY. Contesting the Crusades. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xiii, 198. $29.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Peter W. Edbury MICHAELJ. LEVIN. Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 228. $39-95 (US); R. J. WALSH. Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxxiv, 478. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Toby Osborne MICHAEL A. PALMER. Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 377. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by William S. Cormack SUSANNA BURGHARTZ, ed. Inszenierte Welten: Die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590-1630. Staging New Worlds: De Brys' Illustrated Travel Reports, 1590-1630. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2004. Pp. 199. €54.50. Reviewed by Elmer Kolfin ARTHUR JAY KLINGHOFFER. The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xv, 192. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Patricia Seed C. PATTERSON GIERSCH. Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 308. $49-95 (US).Reviewed by Joanna Waley-Cohen N. A. M. RODGER. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815. New York, NY and London: W. W. Norton, 2005. Pp. lxv, 907. $45.00 (US). Reviewed Daniel A. Baugh RAYMOND HYLTON. Ireland's Huguenots and Their Refuge, 1662-1745: An Unlikely Haven. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 226. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Ruth Whelan MARIEKE DE GOEDE. Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii, 235. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by JU Best ROBIN LAW. Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving ‘Port’, 1727-l892. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 308. $49.95 (US), cloth; $29-95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Davod Eltis COLIN G. CALLOWAY. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 219. $35.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Burnard PAUL D'ARCY. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 292. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by I. C. Campbell FRANCIS M. CARROLL. The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796-1996. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 281. $29.95 (US), paper.Reviewed by Diane Kirby ERIC BURIN. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 223. $101.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Manisha Sinha MICHAEL L. TATE. Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 328. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David La Vere ROBERT HOLLAND and DIANA MARKIDES. The British and the Hellenes: Struggles for Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1850-1960. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 266. $165.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert Frazier DAVID G. ATWILL. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Evelyn S. Rawski ULRICH PALLUA. Eurocentrism, Racism, Colonialism in the Victorian and Edwardian Age: Changing Images of Africa(ns) in Scientific and Literary Texts. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2005. Pp. 263. €39.00. Reviewed by Antoinette Burton HAROLD L. PLATT. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform, of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 628. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Helen Meller TIMOTHY H. PARSONS. Race, Resistance, and the. Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 318. $59-95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Youé MANUS I. MIDLARSKY. The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 463. $28.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Howard Adelman VOLKER R. BERGHAHN. Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 163. $24.95 (US); TOM BUCHANAN. Europe's Troubled Peace, l945-2000. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. xiii, 356. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Aviel Roshwald MATTHEW S. SELIGMANN. Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 272. $139.50 (CDN). Reviewed by David French JAY WINTER and ANTOINE PROST. The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 250. $28.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gary Sheffield MATTHEW HUGHES and WILLIAM J. PHILPOTT. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Mac-millan, 2005. Pp. vi, 108. $19.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Elizabeth Greenhalgh JOHN BROOKS. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle oj Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiv, 321. $115.00 (US). Reviewed by Greg Kennedy NICOLETTA F. GULLACE. ‘The Blood of Our Sons’: Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 284. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Reznick MICHAEL KELLOGG. The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 327. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by István Deák JONATHAN ROSENBERG. HOW Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen GEORGE MCKAY. Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 357. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Lewis Porter RICHARD BESSEL. Nazism and War. London: Orion Books, 2005. Pp. 276. £7.99, paper; KIRAN KLAUS PATEL. Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, trans. Thomas Dunlap. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 446. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Thad Allen MANUELA A. WILLIAMS. Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940. London and New York, NY: Rout-ledge, 2006. Pp. xii, 238. $120.00 (US).Reviewed by Alexander De Grand CORNELIS A. VAN MINNEN. Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xvi, 352. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Bert Zeeman EVAN MAWDSLEY. Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945. London: Hodder Arnold; dist. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 502. $66.50 (CDN).Reviewed by Martin Kitchen ROBERT L. MCLAUGHLIN and SALLY E. PARRY. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema (luring World War II. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. ix, 357. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Gregory D. Black KEITH D. MCFARLAND and DAVID L. ROLL. Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 452. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Dunar PRUE TORNEY-PARLICKI. Behind the News: A Biography of Peter Russo. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2005; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. xii, 412. $35-95, paper.Reviewed by David Day BARAK KUSHNER. The Thought War: Japanese, Imperial Propaganda. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 242. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Duus MARTIN F. AUGER. Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Southern Quebec, 1940-46. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 227. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Chris Madsen ROBERT E. HERZSTEIN. Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 346. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by T. Christopher Jespersen ADAM CHAPNICK. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 210. $29.95 (CDN), paper.Reviewed by Patrick H. Brennan DEBORAH KISATSKY. The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 237. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Jussi M. Hanhimäki ROBERT L. TIGNOR. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 315. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes BRIAN ANGUS MCKENZIE. Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. xii, 259. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth Moure RADU IOANID. The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain between Romania and Israel. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. Pp. xviii, 217. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Dov B. Lungu STEPHEN G. RABE. US Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Sheinin ODD ARNE WESTAD. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 484. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Borstelmann MICHAEL D. STEVENSON, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: XXV: 1957-1958, Part II. Ottawa, ON: Department of External Affairs, 2004. Pp. xlii, 1,103. $119-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen DIMITRY ANASTAKIS. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 285. $29-95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Duncan McDowall ROBERT K. BRIGHAM. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xiv, 178. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark W. McLeod MAURICIO SOLAÚN. US Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua. Lincoln, NB and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 391. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Nancy Mitchell ELI NATHANS. The Politics of Citizenship in Germany: Ethnicity, Utility, and Nationalism. Oxford and New York, NY: Berg, 2004. Pp. xvii, 294. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Oliver Schmidtke JON WESTERN. Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public. Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 305. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Doris A. Graber STEPHEN ERIC BRONNER. Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Pp. vii, 207. $22.00 (us); VASSILIS K. FOUSKAS and BÜLENT GÖKAY. The New American Imperialism: Bush's War on Terror and Blood for Oil. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. Pp. xiii, 247. $49.95 (US); JAMES RISEN. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York, NY: Free Press, 2006. Pp. 240, $26.00 (US).REviewed by Patrick J. Haney MATTHEW A. BAUM. Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 353. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Corner SHENGLIN CHANG. The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 264. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Madeline Y. Hsu LYLE J. GOLDSTEIN. Preventive Attack and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Comparative Historical Analysis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 268. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow BERTHOLD RITTBERGER. Building Europe's Parliament: Democratic Representation beyond the Nation-State. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 234-$117-95 (CDN).Reviewed by Alan S. Milward ALEXANDER COOLEY. Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 191. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Onuf DAVID RUNCIMAN. The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear, and Hypocrisy in the New World Order. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. P. xi, 211. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard Falk DAVID A. WELCH. Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 275. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Barbara Farnham WILLIAM E. RUDDIMAN. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 202. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Vaclav Smil MATTHEW J. GIBNEY. The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 287. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Niklaus Steiner JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ and ANDREW CHARLTON. Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii, 315. $45-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jane Kelsey ANNE E. SARTORI. Deterrence by Diplomacy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 164. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Bradley A. Thayer

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CHARLES KING. The Black Sea: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 276. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed By John P. Ledonne ANDREW GILLETT. Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 335. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard A. Gerberding TIM PESTELL and KATHARINA ULMSCHNEIDER, eds. Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and ‘Productive’ Sites, 650–850. Macclesfield: Windgather Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 304. £25.00. Reviewed by Richard Morris KENNETH CHASE. Firearms: A Global History to 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 290. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Bert S. Hall OLIVIA REMIE CONSTABLE. Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 427. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Molly Greene PAUL STEPHENSON. The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 164. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Walter E. Kaegi MARCUS BULL and NORMAN HOUSLEY, eds. The Experience of Crusading: I: Western Approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 307. $60.00 (US); PETER EDBURY and JONATHAN PHILLIPS, eds. The Experience of Crusading: II: Defining the Crusader Kingdom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 311. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Tyerman MICHAEL ANGOLD. The Fourth Crusade: Event and Context. Harlow and New York: Pearson Longman, 2003. Pp. xxii, 281. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard ROBERT BARTLETT. The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 168. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael D. Barber ANDRE WINK. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: III: Indo-islamic Society, 14th$5th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. x, 282. €93.00. Reviewed by Sanjay Subrahmanyam GEORGE E. BROOKS. Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 355. $26.95 (US). Reviewed by Allen M. Howard FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO. The Americas: The History of a Hemisphere. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. Pp. 199. £12.99. Reviewed by Lester D. Langley WILLIAM B. COHEN. The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530–1880. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 360. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Martin Klein JOSÉ C. CURTO. Enslaving Spirits: The Portuguese-Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and Its Hinterland c. 1550–1830. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. xiv, 252. €74.00. Reviewed by A.J.R. RUSSELL-WOOD EBERHARD SCHMITT and THOMAS BECK, eds. Das Leben in den Kolonien. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. Pp. xv, 546. €68.00. 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