Reviews of Books

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SANDRA R. JOSHEL, MARGARET MALAMUD, and DONALD T. MCGUIRE, Jr., eds. Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 299. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein DANIEL OGDEN. Greek and Roman Necromancy. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 313. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by Julia Kindt WANG GUNGWU. The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 148. S15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul J. Bolt HELEN NICHOLSON. The Knigkts Hospitaller. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 180. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by James A. Brundage JULIA CLANCY-SMITH, ed. North Africa, Islam, and the Mediterranean World: From the Almoravids to the Algerian War. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. 202. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Charles C. Stewart FRANÇOIS CROUZET. A History of the European Economy, 1000–2000. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xx, 329. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jan Luiten Van Zanden MICHAEL C. C. ADAMS. Echoes of War: A Thousand Years of Military History in Popular Culture. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xviii, 277. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Daniel Moran HUBERT HOUBEN. Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West, trans. Graham A. Loud and Diane Milburn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 231. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper; MOLLY GREENE. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 228. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Thomas E. Burman PAMELA H. SMITH and PAULA FINDLEN, eds. Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. ix, 437. $27.95 (US)J paper. Reviewed by Julius Kirschner LAUREN BENTON. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 285. $65.00 (US), cloth; $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nigel D. White JAN GLETE. War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States, 1500–1660. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. viii, 277. $30.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Clifford J. Rogers BRENDAN DOOLEY. Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 238. $36.50 (US). Reviewed by Donald Weinstein JERRY BROTTON. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 243. $45.50 (CDN). Reviewed by John E. Wills, Jr. ALISON D. ANDERSON. On the Verge of War: International Relations and the Jülich-Kleve Succession Crises (1609–1614). Boston and Leiden: Humanities Press, Brill, 1999. Pp. xviii, 276. $79.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald G. Asch MADGE DRESSER. Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port. London and New York: Continuum, 2001. Pp. xii, 242. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan DEREK CROXTON and ANUSCHKA TISCHER. The Peace of Westphalia: A Historical Dictionary. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 376. $96.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Douglas Lockhart JEREMY BLACK. Europe and the World, 1650–1830. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. viii, 192. $14.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by John C. Rule MUZAFFAR ALAM and SEEMA ALAVI, trans, with intro. A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I'jāz-i Arsalānī (Persian Letters, 1773–1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 422. $63.95 (CDN); Rs I,125.00. Reviewed by Robert Travers JUDY CAMPBELL. Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780–1880. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xiv, 266. $39.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Denoon ANDREAS FAHRMEIR. Citizens and Aliens: Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789–1870. New York: Berghahn, 2000. Pp. xiii, 258. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Julian Wright JEAN HEFFER. The United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier, trans. W. Donald Wilson. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 510. $48.95 (US). Reviewed by Barry Gough BAILEY STONE. Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 292. S24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman Hampson CARTER MALKASIAN. A History of Modern Wars of Attrition. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. 240. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by William Philpott THOMAS W. GALLANT. Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 252. $19.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Neville Thompson ROBERT SEELY. Russo-Chechen Conflict, 1800–2000: A Deadly Embrace. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xi, 333. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony Rhinelander FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET. Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804– 1946. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 304. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Guity Nashat DEMETRIUS L. EUDELL. The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the US South. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 238. S31.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Trevor Burnard CATHERINE HALL. Civilising Subjects: Colony and Métropole in the English Imagination, 1830–1867. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 556. $29.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Dane Kennedy ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG. Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 196. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie MYRA RUTHERDALE. Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 194. $85.00 (CDN), cloth; $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Patricia Grimshaw GEOFF ELEY. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 698. $74.00 (US), cloth; 835.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ilaria Favretto DAVID THOMAS MURPHY. German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870–1940. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. x, 273- $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Sigurd Hess MICHAEL GOLDSMITH and DOUG MUNRO. The Accidental Missionary: Tales of Elekana. Christchurch: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 2002. Pp. xviii, 142. $29.95 (NZ), paper. Reviewed by Niel Gunson MADELINE YUAN-YIN HSU. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882–1943. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 271. $18.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Diana Lary BRIAN BOND. The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 128. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Travers TAMI DAVIS BIDDLE. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 406. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John Gooch MARTIN HORN. Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 249. $75.00 (CDN); KENNETH MOURÉ. The Gold Standard Illusion: France, the Bank of France, and the International Gold Standard, 1914–1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 297. $119.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Andrew Barros MAHIR SAUL and PATRICK ROYER. West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War. Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2001. Pp. xiii, 404. $26.95 (US)) paper. Reviewed by A. S. Kanya-Forstner JAMES H. CARTER. Creating a Chinese Harbin: Nationalism in an International City, 1916–1932. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 217. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stig Thøgersen THOMAS G. MAHNKEN. Uncovering Ways of War: US Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918–1941. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 190. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger Beaumont KENNETH MOURÉ and MARTIN S. ALEXANDER, eds. Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. vii, 312. $75.00 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Leonard V. Smith GERT SØRENSEN and ROBERT MALLETT, eds. International Fascism, 1919–45. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. ix, 184. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Christian Leitz BRUCE A. ELLEMAN. Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xviii, 227. $28.95 (US)J paper. Reviewed by Stephen G. Craft YÜCEL GÜÇLÜ. The Question of the Sanjak of Alexandretta: A Study in Turkish-French-Syrian Relations. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 368. Turkish Lira 12.000.000; $8.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Samir Saul FRANCIS M. CARROLL. Money for Ireland: Finance, Diplomacy, Politics, and the First Dáil Éireann Loans, 1919–1936. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xii, 181. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by David Harkness TOMOKO AKAMI. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919–45. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xiv, 352. $95.00 (US); GREG KENNEDY. Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939: Imperial Crossroads. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xiii, 313. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Antony Best JEAN MCCLURE MUDGE. The Poet and the Dictator: Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiv, 206. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan Cassels REYNOLDS M. SALERNO. Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935–1940. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 285. 835.00 (US). Reviewed by Alexander De Grand JOSÉ M. SÁNCHEZ. Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. ix, 197. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Suzanne Brown-Fleming CLARENCE LUSANE. Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. viii, 312. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes SARAH FISHMAN. The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 303. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Lynne Taylor A. O. CHUBARYAN and H. SHUKMAN, eds. Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939–1940, trans. Tatyana Sokokina. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 301. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Ingmar Oldberg TIM MAGA. America Attacks Japan: The Invasion that Never Was. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xi, 194. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Craig M. Cameron ALAN WARREN. Singapore 1942: Britain's Greatest Defeat. London and New York: Hambledon & London, 2002. Pp. xiii, 370. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Waters ALESSANDRO BROGI. A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944–1958. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xiv, 315. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite GÜNTER BISCHOF and WOLFGANG KRIEGER, eds. Die Invasion in der Normandie, 1944: Internationale Perspektiven. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2001. Pp. 203. €21.50, paper. Reviewed by Arnold Krammer YUKI TANAKA. Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xix, 212. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion NONJA PETERS. Milk and Honey — but No Gold: Postwar Migration to Western Australia, 1945–1964. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xv, 336. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by James Jupp NORBERT FREI. Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration, trans. Joel Golb. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 479. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert G. Moeller DAVID ROCK and STEFAN WOLFF, eds. Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. xviii, 234. $69.95 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony J. Steinhoff MARIO DEL PERO. L'alleato Scomodo: Gli USA e la DC negli anni del centrismo (1948–1955). Rome: Carocci editore, 2001. Pp. 322. €23.20, paper Reviewed by Alessandro Brogi MARIA HÖHN. GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiii, 337. $37.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Thomas Borstelmann ANDREW RICHTER. Avoiding Armageddon: Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons, 1950–63. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 214. $85.00 (CDN), cloth; $27.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by J. L. Granatstein XIAOMING ZHANG. Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 300. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton DAVID GOLDSWORTHY. Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. viii, 209. $34.95 (Aus). Reviewed by David Lowe SAKI DOCKRILL. Britain's Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice between Europe and the World? Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xvi, 293. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith Robbins KATHLEEN BURK. Troublemaker: The Life and History of A. J. P. Taylor. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 491. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Alan Sharp HEIKE KRIEGER, ed. Cambridge International Documents Series: XI: The Kosovo Conflict and International Law: An Analytical Documentation, 1974–1999. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xlv, 601. $120.00 (US). Reviewed by Antonio Cassese SVEN TAGIL, ed. Europe: The Return of History, trans. Jasmine Aimaq. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 547. $72.95 (US). Reviewed by Heikki Mikkeli CHRISTOPHER COKER. Waging War without Warriors? The Changing Culture of Military Conflict. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2002. Pp. vii, 223. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. Bacevich