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VINCENT GABRIELSEN. The Naval Aristocracy of Hellenistic Rhodes. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1997; dist. Oakville, Conn.: David Brown Book Company. Pp. 254. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by E. E. Rice DONALD DENOON, ed., with STEWART FIRTH, JOCELYN LINNEKIN, MALAMA MELEISEA, and KAREN NERO. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 518. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Judith A. Bennett CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN. The Invention of the Crusades. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 170. $16.95 (CDN)> paper. Reviewed by Norman Housley ROBIN FRAME. Ireland and Britain, 1170–1450. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 332. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Karl S. Bottigheimer SIDNEY POLLARD. Marginal Europe: The Contribution of Marginal Lands since the Middle Ages. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 327. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Palairet NICHOLAS WRIGHT. Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998. Pp. x, 144. $54.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jones KIKIL PETKOV. Infidels, Turks, and Women: The South Slavs in the German Mind, c. 1400–1600. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 335. $57.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Larry Wolff JOHN R. FISHER. The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492–1810. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 238. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by MARK A. BURKHOLDER JUAN FRANCISCO MAURA. Women in the Conquest of the Americas, trans. John F. Deredita. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xi, 278. $29.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Jacqueline Holler AUDREY BURTON. The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic, and Commercial History, 1550–1702. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 664. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Devin Deweese GREGORY HANLON. The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560–1800. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1998. Pp. xii, 371. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker JOHN MCGURK. The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: The 1590s Crisis. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xii, 290. £45.00. Reviewed by Nicholas Canny PETER VAN KESSEL and ELISJA SCHULTE, eds. Rome, Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiv, 333. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by J. L. Price GIGLIOLA PAGANO DE DIVITIIS. English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy, trans. Stephen Parkin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 202. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Clé Lesger DANIEL GOFFMAN. Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642–1660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 310. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Palmira Brummett ROBIN LAW, ed. The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699: Part 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 363. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by John Flint SYRINE CHAFIC HOUT. Viewing Europe from the Outside: Cultural Encounters and Critiques in the Eighteenth-Century Pseudo-Oriental Travelogue and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Voyage en Orient’. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 288. $53.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Antoinette Marie Sol PETER F. SUGAR. Nationality and Society in Habsburg and Ottoman Europe. Aldershot and Brookfield: Variorum, 1997. Pp. viii, 286. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Alice Freifeld ADAM ZAMOYSH. The Last King of Poland. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997. Pp. viii, 550. $39.95 (US); RICHARD BUTTERWICK. Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732–1798. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 376. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Daniel Stone SUSANNE ZANTOP. Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770–1870. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 292. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Angelica Michelis SILKE HENSEL. Die Entstehung des Foderalismus in Mexiko: Die politische Elite Oaxacas zwischen Stadt, Region, und Stoat, 1786–1835. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 493. DM 168. Reviewed by Brian R. Hamnett CHARLES E. DAVIES. The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation into Qasimi Piracy, 1797–1820. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 453. £40.00. Reviewed by Willem Floor MICHAEL PALAIRET. The Balkan Economies, c. 1800–1914: Evolution without Development. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 415. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Kaser M. J. PETERSON. Recognition of Governments: Legal Doctrine and State Practice, 1815–1995. London: Macmillan, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. ix, 295. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by N. D. White MARCO RIMANELLI. Italy between Europe and the Mediterranean: Diplomacy and Naval Strategy from Unification to NATO, 1800s–2000. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 1,075. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by H. James Burgwyn THOMAS SCHOONOVER. Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821–1929. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 317. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by HOLGER H. HERWIG OOI KEAT GIN. Of Free Trade and Native Interests: The Brookes and the Economic Development of Sarawak, 1841–1241. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 414. $75.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Nicholas Tabling LUKAS M. SCHNEIDER. Die Politik des Bundes gegenuber projektierten Kolonisationsunternehmen in Argentinian und Brasilien: Ein Beitrag zur organisierten Auswanderung aus der Schweiz (1880–1930). Bern: Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. 302. $45.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by NANCY MITCHELL WOLFGANG U. ECKART. Medizin und Kolonialimperialismus Deutschland, 1884–1945. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997. Pp. 638. DM 78, paper. Reviewed by John A. Moses NEIL PARSONS. King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 322. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John W. Cell ALICE L. CONKLIN. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895–1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 367. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by J. Kim Munholland ANTOINETTE BURTON. At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late Victorian Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 278. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Gail Minault CLARE MIDGLEY, ed. Gender and Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xii, 228. $95.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Patricia Grimshaw M. W. DALY. The Sirdar: Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire in the Middle East. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997. Pp. vii, 345. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by John Darwin R. BRA WONG. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 327. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Diana Lary JAMES JANKOWSKI and ISRAEL GERSHONI, eds. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 372. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Charles D. Smith YOUSSEF CASSIS. Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 277. $94.50 (CDN); KRISTINE BRULAND and PATRICK O'BRIEN, eds. From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxv, 362. $121.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Roger Lloyd-Jones NICHOLAS TRACY, ed. The Collective Naval Defence of the Empire, 1900–1940. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. liv, 706. $101.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher M. Bell HAZEL M. MCFERSON. The Racial Dimension of American Overseas Colonial Policy. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 193. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Cary Fraser ANDREW CUNNINGHAM and BRIDIE ANDREWS, eds. Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. ix, 294. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman Etherington M. J. RHEE. The Doomed Empire: Japan in Colonial Korea. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. ix, 178. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter Duus EUGENE EDWARD BEIRIGER. Churchill, Munitions, and Mechanical Warfare: The Politics of Supply and Strategy. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xiii, 188. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Keith Grieves JAMIE H. COCKFIELD. With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 396. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Long ROBERT BOYCE, ed. French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918–1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power. London and New York: Roudedge, 1998. Pp. x, 294. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Thomas RICHARD LAMB. Mussolini and the British. London: John Murray, 1997. Pp. x, 356. £25.00. Reviewed by Alan Cassels NORMAN J. W. GODA. Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. Pp. xxvi, 307. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard Breitman PETER SCHRIJVERS. The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 325. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by James J. Weingartner MARÍA EMILIA PAZ. Strategy, Security, and Spies: Mexico and the US as Allies in World War II. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 264. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen R. Niblo CHRIS MADSEN. The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament, 1942–1947. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xx, 277. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Malcolm H. Murfett HEIKE BUNGERT. Das Nationalkomitee und der Westen: Die Reaktion der Westalliierten aufdas NKFD und die Freien Deutschen Bewegungen, 1943–1948. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 341. DM 76. Reviewed by Diethelm Prowe CHRISTOPHER BOOKER. A Looking-Glass Tragedy: The Controversy over the Repatriations from Austria in 1945. London: Duckwordi, 1997. Pp. vi, 472. £25.00. Reviewed by Ian D. Armour JUSSI M. HANHIMÄKI. Scandinavia and the United States: An Insecure Friendship. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997. Pp. xvii, 223. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Wayne S. Cole JAMES F. GOODE. The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 235. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Douglas Little ZACH LEVEY. Israel and the Western Powers, 1952–1960. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 203. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael B. Oren H. W. BRANDS. The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 294. $28.50 (CDN), paper; ROBERT DALLEK. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 754. $51.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Melvin Small RUSSELL KING and RICHARD BLACK, eds. Southern Europe and the New Immigrations. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1997; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. viii, 210. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder OKBAZGHI YOHANNES. The United States and the Horn of Africa: An Analytical Study of Pattern and Process. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. xi,353. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert O. Collins RANSFORD W. PALMER. The Repositioning of US-Caribbean Relations in the New World Order. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. vi, 222. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Edward L. Cox WILLIAM H. MOTT IV. The Economic Basis of Peace: Linkages between Economic Growth and International Conflict. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. x, 304. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by William R. Thompson BRIAN HOLDEN REID, ed. Military Power: Land Warfare in Theory and Practice. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 265. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Lorenzo M. Crowell FRANK P. HARVEY. The Future's Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory, and Crisis Stability after the Cold War. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 192. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Peter Suedfeld EFRAIM INBAR and GABRIEL SHEFFER, eds. The National Security of Small States in a Changing World. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. viii, 217. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Brian L. Job ROBERT LATHAM. The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 281. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Barry Buzan ANDREAS HASENCLEVER, PETER MAYER, and VOLKER RITTBERGER. Theories of International Regimes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 248. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Miriam Fendius Elman