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Abstract DOYNE DAWSON. The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 203. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Bernard S. Bachrach WILLIAM ARMSTRONG PERCY III. Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. x, 260. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by P. A. Cartledge MARK WHITTOW. The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. xxv, 477. £45.00. Reviewed by Warren Treadgold BENJAMIN T. HUDSON. Prophecy of Berchán: Irish and Scottish High-Kings of the Early Middle Ages. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 271. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Dauvit Broun ANN WILLIAMS. The English and the Norman Conquest. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 264. $63.00 (US), cloth; $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by C. P. Lewis R. S. BRAY. Armies of Pestilence: The Effects of Pandemics on History. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 258. £30.00. Reviewed by Linda Bryder ASPARUCH VELKOV and EVGENIY RADUSHEV, trans. Ottoman Garrisons on the Middle Danube: Based on Austrian National Library MS MXT 562 of 956/1549–1550. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1996. Pp. 547. $83.00 (US). Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan LAURA HUNT YUNGBLUT. ‘Strangers Settled Here amongst Us’: Policies, Perceptions, and the Presence of Aliens in Elizabethan England. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. ix, 178. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles G. D. Littleton DAVID GOODMAN. Spanish Naval Power, 1589–1665: Reconstruction and Defeat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 305. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter O'M. Pierson BERNARDO JOSÉ GARCÍA GARCÍA. La Pax Hispanica: Polttica exterior del Duque de Lerma. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 432. BF 1,150. Reviewed by Randall Lesaffer J. R. JONES. The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xi, 242. £12.99. Reviewed by Daniel A. Baugh IVAN PARVEV. Habsburgs and Ottomans between Vienna and Belgrade, 1683–1739. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1996; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xviii, 345. $42.00 (US). Reviewed by Halil Inalcik DALE HOAK and MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, eds. The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688–89. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 33g. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Tim Harris LESTER D. LANGLEY. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 374. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Drew R. McCoy FREDERICK G. WHELAN. Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 368. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael H. Fisher P. J. MARSHALL, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 400. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stuart Macintyre L. G. BESKROVNY. The Russian Army and Fleet in the Nineteenth Century: Handbook of Armaments, Personnel, and Policy, ed. and trans. Gordon E. Smith. Gulf Breeze: Academic International Press, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 408. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by John Erickson HOWARD JONES and DONALD A. RAKESTRAW. Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo- American Relations in the 1840s. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1997; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 342. $50.00 (US), cloth; $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Francis M. Carroll EDWARD LAXTON. The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America, 1846–51. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Pp. vi, 250. £16.99. Reviewed by Harman Akenson TADEUSZ SWIETOCHOWSKI. Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 290. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Turaj Atabaki WILLIAM R. NESTER. Power across the Pacific: A Diplomatic History of American Relations with Japan. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. v, 446. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart EARLJ. HESS. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xii, 244. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Fellman GEOFFREY WAWRO. The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 313. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter ROBERT ALDRICH. Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 369. $45.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Raymond F. Betts ALAN CASSELS. Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. xiii, 302. £45.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. Reviewed by C.J. Bartlet HORST DRECHSLER. Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die groβen Land-und Minengesellschaften, 1885–1914. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996. Pp.360. DM96.00. Reviewed by Jan-Bart Gewald TUOMO POLVINEN. Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898–1904, trans. Steven Huxley. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 342. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Pekka Kalevi Hamalainen N. A. M. RODGER, ed. Naval Power in the Twentieth Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996; dist. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing. Pp. xxiv, 273. $62.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf LAMAR CECIL. Wilhelm II: Volume II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 503. $61.95 (US). Reviewed by Sally Marks RICHARD J. POPPLEWELL. Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire, 1904–1924. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. x, 354. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by T. G. Fraser ROY DOUGLAS. The Great War, 1914–1918: The Cartoonist's Vision. London and New York: Roudedge, 1995. Pp. vii, 157. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Travers JÜRGEN VON UNGERN-STERNBERG and WOLFGANG VON UNGERN-STERNBERG. Der Aufruf ‘An die Kulturwelt!’ Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996. Pp. 247. DM74.00. Reviewed by Stephen Brockmann BULLITT LOWRY. Armistice, 1918. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 245. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Stevenson DAVID ARMSTRONG, LORNA LLOYD, and JOHN REDMOND. From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organization in the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 321. $49.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Beck RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN. The Republic of Armenia: Volume III: From London to Sèvres, February–August, 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 534. $45.00 (US); Reviewed by Ronald Grigor Suny RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN. The Republic of Armenia: Volume IV: Between Crescent and Sickle: Partition and Sovietization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 496. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald Grigor Suny DERMOT KEOGH. Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church- State Relations, 1922–1960. Cork: Cork University Press, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxvi, 410. $62.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Kent WILLIAMSON MURRAY and ALLAN R. MILLETT, eds. Military Innovation in th Interwar Period. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 428. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian Bond T. CHRISTOPHER JESPERSON. American Images of China, 1931–1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 254. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Marc Gallicchio LON O. NORDEEN and DAVID NICOLLE. Phoenix over the Nile: A History of Egyptian Air Power, 1932–1994. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 413. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Ron Matthews NORMAN HILLMER, ROBERT BOTHWELL, ROGER SARTY, and CLAUDE BEAUREGARD, eds. A Country of Limitations: Canada and the World in 1939. Ottawa: Department of National Defence, Directorate of History, 1996. Pp. 295. No Charge. Reviewed by Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel MICHAEL ALFRED PESZKE. Battle for Warsaw, 1939–1944. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1995; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xi, 325. $56.00 (US);Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley ANITA J. PRAŻMOWSKA. Britain and Poland, 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 233. $64.95 (US), cloth; $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley BRADLEY F. SMITH. Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xix, 307. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen CAROLYN EISENBERG. Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944–1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 522. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Diethelm Prowe STEVEN T. ROSS. American War Plans, 1945–1950. London: Frank Cass, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xii, 189. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Barton J. Bernstein IRENE L. GENDZIER. Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945–1958. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 470. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by H. W. Brands WALTER L. HDCSON. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 283. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield JUSSI M. HANHIMÄKI. Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the ‘Finnish Solution’. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 279. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Bo Petersson ALAN S. MILWARD and GEORGE BRENNAN. Britain's Place in the World: A Historical Enquiry into Import Controls, 1945–1960. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. xvi, 320. $111.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk SEAN M. MALONEY. War without Battles: Canada's NATO Brigade in Germany, 1951 –1993. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1997. Pp. xxxviii, 525. $29.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Desmond Morton ROB KROES. If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mali: Europeans and American Mass Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 195. $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul Boyer JAMES A. BILL. George Ball: Behind the Scenes in US Foreign Policy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 274. $30.00 (US); Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner GEORGE C. MCGHEE. On the Frontline in the Cold War: An Ambassador Reports. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiii, 209. $57.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner NIGEL JOHN ASHTON. Eisenhower, MacmiUan, and the Problem of Nasser: Anglo- American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955–1959. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 273. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter L. Hahn ROY REMPEL. Counterweights: The Failure of Canada's German and European Policy, 1955–1995. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 270. $42.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Greg Donaghy ROBERT BUZZANCO. Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 386. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David Hunt BLEMA S. STEINBERG. Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 397. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young STEVEN HURST. The Carter Administration and Vietnam. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 201. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by William J. Duiker DAVID SKIDMORE. Reversing Course: Carter's Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Failure of Reform. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 234. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton ROBERT G. SUTTER. Shaping China's Future in World Affairs: The Role of the United States. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 194. $39.85 (US). Reviewed by Shu Guang Zhang THOMAS E. HALVERSON. The Last Great Nuclear Debate: NATO and Short-Range Nuclear Weapons in the 1980s. London: Macmillan, 1995. Pp. xvi, 219. £40.00. Reviewed by Susanne Peters FREDERICK K. LISTER. The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 182. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by N. D. White CHRISTIAN SMITH. Resisting Reagan: The US Central America Peace Movement. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 464. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by M. LeoGrande GEORGE MODELSKI and WILLIAM R. THOMPSON. Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics. Columbia: Umversity of South Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 263. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles F. Doran STEPHEN J. CIMBALA. The Politics of Warfare: The Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. 245. $45.00 (US) cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James J. Wirtz ROBIN COHEN. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Seatde: University of Washington Press. Pp. xii, 228. $50.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Judith M. Brown FEN OSLER HAMPSON. Nurturing Peace: Why Peace Settlements Succeed or Fail. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 287. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Jervis MICHAEL HERMAN. Intelligence Power in Peace and War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 414. $59.95 (US), cloth; $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael I. Handel
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CHRISTON I. ARCHER, JOHN R. FERRIS, HOLGER H. HERWIG, and TIMOTHY H. E. TRAVERS. World History of Warfare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 626. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn ANGELOS CHANIOTIS and PIERRE DUCREY, eds. Army and Power in the Ancient World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. viii, 204. €44.00, paper. Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein MARTIN CARVER, ed. The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300. York: York Medieval Press, University of York; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 588. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by John Howe DANIEL CANER. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 325. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John J. Contreni HUGH KENNEDY. The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xix, 229. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Walter E. Kaegi JEREMY JOHNS. Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Dīwān. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 389. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by James M. Powell DIRK HOERDER. Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 779. $100.00 (US). Reviewed by J. R. McNeill NORMAN HOUSLEY. Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400–1536. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 238. $105.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Thomas A. Fudge SCOTT C. LEVI. The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade, 1550–1900. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. ix, 319. €72.00; DAVID ZWEIG. Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 291. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by S. A. M. Adshead HENRY HELLER. Anti-ltalianism in Sixteenth-Century France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 307. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Wolfe WADE G. DUDLEY. Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. Pp. xiv, 96. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell ALISON WEIR. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley. New York: Ballantine, 2003. Pp. xvii, 670. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Jane E. A. Dawson DAVID FREEDBERG. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 513. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Steven F. Ostrow RICHARD LAWTON and ROBERT LEE, eds. Population and Society in Western European Port-Cities, c. 1650–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xx, 385. –75.95 (US). Reviewed by Dudley Baines PETER KRUGER and PAUL W. SCHRODER, eds., in co-operation with KATJA WUSTENBECKER. 'The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848': Episode or Model in Modern History? Munster: Lit Verlag, 2002. Pp. 356. €35.90. Reviewed by James J. Sheehan ROBERT L. SCHEINA. Latin America's Wars: I: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 569. $29.95 (US), paper; CHRIS LEUCHARS. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 254. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna JOHN GASCOIGNE, with the assistance of PATRICIA CURTHOYS. The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 233. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Marian Quartly ROBERT J. ANTONY and JANE KATE LEONARD, eds. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2002. Pp. xiii, 333. $19.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John W. Dardess JOEL MOKYR. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 359. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Lindenfeld DANIEL H. BAYS and GRANT WACKER, eds. The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. x, 332. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion MIMI COLLIGAN. Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xvi, 250. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Philippa Mein Smith MICHAEL STURMA. South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. x, 193. $63.95 (US) Reviewed by Vicki Luker SUDIPTA SEN. Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 216. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. J. Marshall CHARLES ESDAILE. The Peninsular War: A New History. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 587. $49.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer MARKUS MOSSLANG, SABINE FREITAG, and PETER WENDE, eds. British Envoys to Germany, 1816–1866: II: 1830–1847. New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society in Association with the German Historical Institute, London, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 600. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John Clarke SEYMOUR DRESCHER. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 307. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen PATRICK KARL O'BRIEN and ARMAND CLESSE, eds. Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846–1914 and the United States 1941–2001. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiii, 369. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by William R. Thompson HOLLIS CLAYSON. Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–71). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 485. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Gay L. Gullickson JEFFREY W. CODY. Exporting American Architecture, 1870–2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xviii, 205. $39-95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Annabel Jane Wharton MICHAEL SCHMID. Der ≫Eiserne Kanzler≪ und die Generäle: Deutsche Rüstungs-politik in der Ära Bismarck (1871–1890). Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. xii, 751. €65.00. Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener JULIE A. CHARLIP. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers ofCarazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2003. Pp. xiv, 288. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Thompson ROBERT O. COLLINS. The Nile. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 260. $39.95 (US); HEATHER J. SHARKEY. Living with Colo-nialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 232. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. W. Daly CRAIG WILCOX. Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899–1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 541. $75.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith Surridge MARGARET MACMILLAN and FRANCINE MCKENZIE, eds. Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 288. $85.00 (CDN), cloth; $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell MARK BLYTH. Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 284. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James K. Galbraith DANIEL JOSEPH WALTHER. Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 268. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jan-Bart Gewald STEVEN G. MARKS. How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 393. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by William G. 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