Book Review: Russian-Arab Worlds. A Documentary History by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova and Margaret Litvin (eds) Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova and Margaret Litvin (eds), Russian-Arab Worlds. A Documentary History. Oxford University Press: New York, 2023; xiv+388 pp. US$110.00 (hbk). 9780197605769.

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Journal Article The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History Get access The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History. Edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1980. 556 pp. £18.00. Pb:£8.95. Lionel Kochan Lionel Kochan 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 2, Spring 1981, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619184 Published: 01 April 1981

A comparatively new medium, film can be used for a range of discussions about the ways in which history is recorded, edited, shaped, and remembered; it is also useful for teaching contemporary interpretation of older literatures. Like historical fiction – or works of art more generally – movies with historical themes are most productively studied in their broader contexts, alongside, and in conjunction with, written sources. The classroom provides a perfect venue for such study. While reading and analyzing older texts, students can also be taught to read films for their authenticity, their accuracy or inaccuracy of detail in portraying the past, and for effective (or ineffective) use of purposeful or intentional anachronism, among other approaches. Film enhances the study of texts; careful reading of texts may, in turn, lead to more critical evaluation of film.

Giunta, Mary A., ed., and J. Dane Hartgrove, assoc. ed. Documents of the Emerging Nation: U.S. Foreign Relations 1775-1789. Wilmington, DE: SR Books 1998. Pp. xxix, 311. $55.00, hardbound; $19.95, softbound. Kurian, George T, ed. A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 704. $95.00, hardbound. Walch, Timothy, and Dwight M. Miller, eds. Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. 264. $59.95, hardbound. Daynes, Byron W., William D. Pederson and Michael P. Riccards, eds. The New Deal and Public Policy. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 293. $49.95, hardbound. Denton, Robert E., Jr., ed. The 1996 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. Pp. 320. $65.00, hardbound; $24.95, softbound. Ellis, Richard J., ed. Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Pp. x, 264. $45.00, hardbound; $16.95, $16.95, softbound. Fink, Gary, M., and Hugh David Graham, eds. The Carter Presidency: Polio/ Choices in the Post-New Deal Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. ix, 310. $39.95, hardbound. McSweeney, Dean, and John E. Owens, eds. The Republican Takeover of Congress. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 202. $59.95, hardbound. Bowie, Robert R., and Richard H. Immerman. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 317. $49.95, hardbound. Dover, E. D. The Presidential Election of 1996: Clinton's Incumbency and Television. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. Pp. 199. $55.00, hardbound. Holt, Karen E. When Officials Clash: Implementation of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. Pp. x, 192. $55.00, hardbound. Killian, Linda. The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 463. $28.00 hardbound. Pruden, Caroline. Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 368. $35.00, hardbound. Shogan, Robert. The Fate of the Union: America's Rocky Road to Political Stalemate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 332. $27.95, hardbound. Stratton, David, H. Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 392. $29.95, hardbound.

Year Book of Education 1966. Church and State in Education. Edited by G. Z. F. Bereday and J. A. Lauwerys. Pp. xiv, 386. London: Evans, 1966. 70s. Education and Society in Tudor England. By Joan Simon. Pp. xi, 451. Cambridge University Press, 1966. 70s. Problems in Education and Philosophy. By Charles J. Brauner and Robert W. Burns. Pp. 165. London: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1965. Cloth, 40s. Paper, 18s. The Meaning of Education. By Stephen Ross. Pp. 112. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. Freedom and Education. Edited by Helen Huus. Fifty‐first Annual Schoolmen's Week Proceedings. Pp. 274. University of Pennsylvania Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 30s. Christianity in Education. By F. H. Hilliard, Desmond Lee, Gordon Rupp, W. R. Niblett. The Hibbert Lectures 1965. Pp. III. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966, 18s. Religious Education, 1944–1984. Edited by A. G. Wedderspoon. Pp. 238. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966. 12s. 6d. The State and Boarding Education: A Factual Report. By Royston Lambert. Pp. 96. London: Methuen, 1966. 9s. 6d. Education and the Labour Movement, 1870–1920. By Brian Simon. Pp. 387. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1965. 50s. The Rise of the Technocrats: a Social History. By W. H. G. Armytage. Pp. viii, 448. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 56s. The Manchester Grammar School, 1515–1965. Edited by J. A. Graham and B. A. Phythian. Pp. ix, 202. Manchester University Press, 1965. 21s. Princes in the Making: A Study of Royal Education. By Morris Marples. Pp. 212. London: Faber and Faber, 1965. 28s. Examinations: An Account of Their Evolution as Administrative Devices in England. By R. J. Montgomery. Pp. xiii, 303. London: Longmans, 1965. 35s. Down Stream: Failure in the Grammar School. By R, R. Dale and S. Griffith.. Pp. x, 97. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. 20s. Education in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century. By Alexander Law. Pp. 239. London: University of London Press, 1965. 30s. Education in Stirlingshire: from the Reformation to the Act of 1872. By Andrew Bain. Pp. 300. University of London Press, for the Scottish Council for Research in Education, 1965. 30s. Education in Ireland. By T. J. McElligott. Pp. viii, 201. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1966. 33s. The Genius of American Education. By Lawrence A. Cremin. Pp. 122. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1965. $2. Essays on Education in the Early Republic. Edited by Frederick Rudolph. Pp. xxv, 389. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 56s. The Emergence of the American University. By Laurence R. Veysey. Pp. xiv, 505. University of Chicago Press, 1966. $10. The Superior Student in American Higher Education. By J. W. Cohen. Pp. xxiv, 299. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company. $7.95. The Educated Woman in America. Selected Writings of Catherine Beecher, Margaret Fuller and M. Carey Thomas. Edited by Barbara M. Cross. Pp. viii, 175. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965. $1.95 paperback. Teacher Education in America: A Documentary History. Edited by Professor Merle L. Borrowman. Pp. 251. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965. $1.95. The Technical Institute. By Maurice Graney. Pp. 118. London: Prentice‐Hall International, 1965. 365. John F. Kennedy on Education. Selected and edited by William T. O'Hara, with a foreword by Congressman John Brademas. Pp. xiv, 305. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1966. $6.50. The Historian's Contribution to Anglo‐American Misunderstanding. Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo‐American History Text Books. By Ray Allen Billington, with the collaboration of C. P. Hill, Angus J. Johnston II, C. L. Mowat and Charles F. Mallett. Pp. xv, 118. London: Rout‐ledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. 18s. The German Historical School in American Scholarship: A Study in the Transfer of Culture. By Jurgen Herbst. Pp. xvii, 262. Cornell University Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 46s. Festschrift zur Eröffnung der Universität Bochum. Edited by H. Wenke and J. H. Knoll. Pp. 394. Bochum: Verlag F. Kamp, 1965. Dm.38. Education and Social Change in Ghana. By Philip J. Foster. Pp. xii, 322. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 36s. Learning Through Group Experience. By A. K. C. Ottaway. Pp. viii, 168. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. 25s. Experiment and Tradition in Primary Schools. By D. E. M. Gardner. Pp. 211. London: Methuen, 1966. 27s. 6d. Introducing the Younger Woman. By W. R. Page. Pp. xii, 212. Cambridge University Press, 1965. 30s.

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Apollon Davidson, Irina Filatova, Valentin Gorodnov, Sheridan Johns (eds), South Africa and theCommunist International: A Documentary History. Vol. 1: Socialist Pilgrims to BolshevikFootsoldiers, 1919–1930 (London, Frank Cass, 2003), lxii þ263 pp., £65.00 hardback, ISBN 0-7146-5280-6. Vol. 2: Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation, 1931–1939 (London,Frank Cass, 2003), lxi þ304 pp., £65.00 hardback, ISBN 0-7146-5281-4Valentin Gorodnov (compiler), Apollon Davidson (ed.), Komintern i Afrika: dokumenty [The CommunistInternationalandAfrica:Documents](St.Petersburg,Izdat.Aleteia,2003),352pp.,ISBN5-89329-547-1ApollonDavidson(editor-in-chief), Stanovlenie otechestvennoi afrikanistiki, 1920-e - nachalo 1960-x [TheFormationofDomesticAfricanStudies,1920stoEarly1960s](Moscow,Nauka,2003),391pp.,ISBN5-02-008900-1Afrikanistika XX veka: vremia, liudi, vzgliady. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii [AfricanStudies in the Twentieth Century: The Times,the People,the Opinions.Materialsfrom an InternationalScientific Conference] (Moscow, Institut Vseobshchei Istorii, 2002), 256 pp., ISBN 5-94067-068-7In the introduction to South Africa and the Communist International: A Documentary History (hereafterSACI), Apollon Davidson, Irina Filatova, Valentin Gorodnov and Sheridan Johns remark that theCommunist International (the Comintern) ‘may seem to belong to a very distant era’. It was nevertheless,theycontinue – assumingthatweacceptthatcommunismwasitselfanoteworthyphenomenon – ‘withoutdoubtoneofthemostimportantglobalorganisationsevertohaveexisted’[ Vol.1,p.1].Thisisalargeclaim,andpresumablyunderpinstheshorthistoricalaccountofCominternactivityinSouthAfricaintherestoftheintroduction. It also belongs to a class of claims about Soviet and communist history that has come underincreasingly critical scrutiny in recent years. As Neal Ascherson has observed, it is not so long sinceit seemed incontrovertible that the most signific ant event in the 20th century was the BolshevikRevolution of October 1917. Now it is highly controve rtible. Thirteen years after the collapse of theSovietUnion,theviewiscurrentthattheRevolutiona chievedalmostnothingofitsoriginalintentions.

Reviewed by: The Colonial American Stage, 1665-1774: A Documentary Calendar, and: Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama Jeffrey H. Richards (bio) The Colonial American Stage, 1665–1774: A Documentary Calendar. Odai Johnson and William J. Burling. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. 519 pp., maps [by James Coombs]. Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama. Heidi Hutner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ix, 141 pp. Despite what has traditionally been understood as a paucity of drama and theater in colonial America, there is much more to be found than one might expect from the standard histories. It is a matter of knowing where to look. On the one hand, as Heidi Hutner suggests in her study, Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama, British plays of the seventeenth century contain a number of references to things and situations American, most particularly for her purposes those related to the representation of Native women; but we can easily move from her focus to the larger matter of how the colonies in general were rendered on the London boards. To take just a few examples, most lying outside Hutner's purview, Samuel Foote and Richard Cumberland both portray West Indian planters—and their African-American slaves—in The Patron (1764) and The West Indian (1771), respectively. Native Americans appear in Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter (1689), Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko (1695), John Dennis's Liberty Asserted (1704), and George Colman, Jr.'s Inkle and Yarico (1787). Some British authors refer to the Revolutionary War, albeit only briefly, as in Frederick Pilon's Fair American (1782) and John O'Keeffe's popular after-piece, The Poor Soldier (1783). At any rate, whatever the conditions of the American theater, British stages reflected a variety of (mis)understandings about the large, unruly, and troublesome lands across the ocean that early Americanists would do well to recognize. On the other hand, looking at the texts of British drama does not mean we should ignore the American stage. As Odai Johnson and William J. Burling show in The Colonial American Stage, 1665–1774: A Documentary History, there were many attempts, particularly after 1700, to put on plays, [End Page 174] even in the face of political or religious opposition to the theater. Indeed, after reading through the annals in this book, one comes away with the idea that there were probably many more performances and attempts to mount dramas on stage than the authors can with certainty give credence to. For one thing, Johnson and Burling note that earlier historians of the American theater often omitted or disregarded "amateur" performances, even when those might not have been as "amateur" as the historians let on. For another, they include under one roof (or between two covers) performances in English in such venues as the Danish West Indies and Nova Scotia, parts of the wider theatrical network of North America usually marginalized or ignored by scholars of American theater. These hints at a virtual underground of dramatic renderings suggest that Americans were far more interested in the theater than we have understood them to be. Taken together with British interest in American subjects on the London stage, this American interest in staging British plays on their own platforms indicates a rich and largely unknown world of textual and performative complexity not given its full due. Hutner's book indicates how much an investigator can find even with a narrowly conceived thesis. The author examines a select group of plays from Jacobean and Restoration England in pursuit of the methods by which the dramas evoke certain paradigms related to the figuration of Native American women in the theater. For Hutner, there are two key founding myths, the stories of Pocahontas and Marina/Malinche, Native female go-betweens whose functional taming by European males masks the latter's anxiety over the wildness and uncontrollability of women in patrilineal, patriarchal societies. In many ways, as Hutner notes, the drama elides the Native female subject, even as it calls her to mind. Shakespeare's The Tempest, for instance, would seem to bring forth an American Native presence on Prospero's colonized island; but the only...

Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History, edited by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 408 pages. $110 cloth. and Russian Strategy in the Middle East and North Africa, by Derek Averre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 288 pages. £85 cloth, e-book.

Louise A. Breen. Trangressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 292 pp. Sargent Bush, Jr., ed. The Correspondence of John Cotton. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 548 pp. Michael P. Winship. Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. 322 pp. In the midst of an entangled “crisis” that appeared to threaten the very being of newly founded Massachusetts, one close observer of the situation in 1636 and 1637 felt that little of substance separated the warring parties: “few could see where the difference was; and indeed it seemed so small, as (if men's affections had not been formerly lienated, when the differences were […] stated as fundamental) they might easily have come to reconciliation.” Other contemporaries painted the crisis in starker colors, invoking, as John Wheelwright did in a fast-day sermon of January 1637, the combat between the forces of Christ and the followers of the Anti-Christ and summoning the “children of God” to “prepare for a spirituall combate” against their enemies.The Journal of John Winthrop, ed. Richard S. Dunn et al. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996) 216 ; David D. Hall, ed., The Antinomian Controversy, 1636–1638: A Documentary History (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1968) 158–59. By and large, modern historians have sided with Wheelwright in emphasizing the seriousness of the “Antinomian controversy,” as the crisis is conventionally termed. Its modern interpreters disagree, however, on what was at issue and on the relationship of the controversy to the underlying dynamics of the Puritan movement. Two new books by young historians add to this debate in important ways, and a third volume, a scrupulously edited collection of the letters of the Reverend John Cotton, advances our understanding of a minister whose sermons to his Boston congregation helped precipitate the crisis.

Church and State in the Modern Age: A Documentary History. Edited by J. F. Maclear. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xviii + 510 pp. $65.00.

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Book Review: <scp>The Church of England</scp>: 1815–1948. A Documentary History. Edited by R. P. Flindall. SPCK, 1972. xii+497 pp. £5. <scp>Leaders Of The Church Of England</scp>: 1828–1944. By David L. Edwards. Oxford University Press, 1971. 358 pp. £3.90.

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