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DAVID R. MCCANN and BARRY S. STRAUSS, eds. War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. Pp. xxviii, 385. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein ALAN K. BOWMAN, PETER GARNSEY, and DOMINIC HATHBONE, eds. The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed: XI: The High Empire, AD 70–192. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 1,222. $160.00 (US). Reviewed by T. D. Barnes WARWICK BALL. Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xix, 523. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by C. S. Lightfoot WILHELM BAUM and DIETMAR W. WINKLER. Die Apostolische Kirche des Ostens: Geschichte der sogenannten ‘Nestorianer’. Klagenfurt: Verlag Kitab, 2000. Pp. 174. €18.00, paper. Reviewed by W. H. C. Frend NATALIA LOZOVSKY. ‘The Earth Is Our Book’: Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West, ca. 400-1000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 182. $44.50 (US). Reviewed by Marcia Kupfer MATTHEW INNES. State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 316'. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Wendy Davies MATTHEW S. GORDON. The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military ofSamarra (AH 200-275/815-889 CE). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 303. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michal Biran DEBORAH HOWARD. Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100–1500. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 283. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Tavernor GEOFFREY HOSKING. Russia and the Russians: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 718. $35.00 (US) Reviewed by David Goldfrank SHIH-SHAN HENRY TSAI. Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 270. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Nimick GEORGE RAUDZENS, ed. Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns and Germs Theories. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xvii, 304. €84.00 Reviewed by Alfred W. Crosby KARL GUNNAR PERSSON. Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-igoo: Integration and Deregulation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 173. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by J. A. Chartres JAMES MCDERMOTT. Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 509. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John C. Appleby ANDREW CUNNINGHAM and OLE PETER GRELL. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine, and Death in Reformation Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 360. $22.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker JOHN EGLIN. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660–1797. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 262. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Wilton JEREMY BLACK. British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688–1800. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 244. £40.00. Reviewed by Rory Muir LAURA HOSTETLER. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 257. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Dardess DAVID PORTER. Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 296. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by John E. Wills, Jr. WILLIAM HALE. Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774–2000. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. ix, 375. $49-50 (US). Reviewed by Kemal H. Karpat MARTHA MCLAREN. British India and British Scotland, 1780–1830: Career Building, Empire Building, and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 306. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Rosane Rocher JAMES SCHOFIELD SAEGER. The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 266. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Barbara Ganson FRANCIS M. CARROLL. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783–1842. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 462. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by E. Jane Errington T. C. W. BLANNING, ed. The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789–1914. New York:Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 304. $34.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Julian Wright ARNO J. MAYER. The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 716. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone JOHN M. KNAPP. Behind the Diplomatic Curtain: Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816–1869. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 343. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder EDWARD INGRAM. The British Empire as a World Power. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiv, 282. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald Hyam PAULA REBERT. La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 259. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph Nevins MARTIN CEADEL. Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 477. $80.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Peter Brock MICHÈLE CUNNINGHAM. Mexico and the Foreign Policy of Napoleon III. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiii, 251. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ann Pottinger Saab CHRISTOPHER CLAY. Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1856–1881: A Contribution to Ottoman and to International Financial History. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. Pp. xx, 698. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Feroz Ahmad ARDEN BUCHOLZ. Moltke and the German Wars, 1864–1871. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 240. $65.00 (US), cloth; $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ronald J. Granieri CELESTE RAY. Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xix, 256. $27.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Melton Mclaurin LAURENT TISSOT. Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la Suisse au XIXe siècle. Lausanne: Editions Payot Lausanne, 2000. Pp. 302. FS 39.00; €22.71, paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Wall JOHN A. MOSES and CHRISTOPHER PUGSLEY, eds. The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871–1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism. Claremont: Regina Books, 2000. Pp. xviii, 576. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Joan Beaumont MARKKU RUOTSILA. British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiv, 274. $26.50(US), paper. Reviewed by David S. Foglesong NICOLA COOPER. France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001 Pp ix, 240. $19.50 (US), paper.Reviewed by Nola Cooke MARGARET CRITCHLOW RODMAN. Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 247. $24.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Paul D'Arcy JONATHAN M. HOUSE. Combined Arms: Warfare in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xvii, 364. $19.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Roger Beaumont STEPHEN A. SCHUKER, ed. with collaboration from ELISABETH MÜLLER-LUCKNER. Deutschland und Frankreich: Vom Konflikt zur Aussöhnung: Die Gestaltung der westeuropäischen Sicherheit, 1914–1963. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000. Pp. xix, 280. €49.80. Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier CHARLES W. KOBURGER,JR. The Central Powers in the Adriatic, 1914–1918: War in a Narrow Sea. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xxi, 145. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence Sondhaus HEW STRACHAN. The First World War: I: To Arms. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 1,227. $72.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig HUBERT P. VAN TUYLL VAN SEROOSKERKEN. The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy, and Survival. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xvii, 381. €99.00; $115.00 (US). Reviewed by Marc Frey VALERIE HOLMAN and DEBRA KELLY, eds. France at War in the Twentieth Century: Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor. New York: Berghahn, 2000. Pp. x, 164. $55.00 (US), cloth; $19.50 (US), paper Reviewed by Talbot Imlay MICHAEL F. FELDKAMP. Pius XII. und Deutschland. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. Pp. 236. €14.90, paper. Reviewed by John K. Zeender BROCK MILLMAN. Pessimism and British War Policy, 1916–1918. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. x, 322. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Gary Sheffield RICHARD S. GRAYSON. Liberals, International Relations, and Appeasement: The Liberal Party, 1919–1939. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiii, 202. $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Dutton MARGARET LAMB and NICHOLAS TARLING. From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xv, 238. $14.99 (US), paper Reviewed by P. M. H. Bell ENDA DELANEY. Demography, State, and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921–1971. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 345- $29.95 (CDN), paper Reviewed by David Harxness JOANNA LEWIS. Empire State Building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52. Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2001. Pp. xvii, 393. $22.95 (US), paper Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER YOUÈ PATRICIA C LA VIN. The Great Depression in Europe, 1929–1939. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. viii, 244. $65.00 (US), cloth; $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by G. Balachandran GORDON MARTEL, ed. The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society (London), 2000. Pp. xvii, 312. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley DAVID P. BARRETT and LARRY N. SHYU, eds. Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932–1945: The Limits of Accommodation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 290. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen G. Craft ADAM R. A. CLAASEN. Hitler's Northern War: The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 338. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard R. Muller DAVID J. DUNTHORN. Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940–1950.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. ix, 236. $69.95 (US); WAYNE H. BOWEN. Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 250. $57.75 (US). Reviewed by Jill Edwards STEFAN MARTENS and MAURICE VAÏSSE, eds. Frankreich und Deutschland im Krieg (November 1942-Herbst 1944): Okkupation, Kollaboration, Résistance. Bonn: Bouvier, 2000. Pp. xviii, 944. DM 140.00. Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda MACGREGOR KNOX. Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 207. $24.95 (US); CHARLES T. O'REILLY. Forgotten Battles: Italy's War of Liberation, 1940–1943. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2001. Pp. vii, 365. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by James Edward Miller KARL HACK. Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia: Britain, Malaya, and Singapore, 1941–1968. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 2001; dist. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. x, 341. $57.00 (US). Reviewed by Simon C. Smith MARK JOHNSTON. Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and Their Adversaries in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 206. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by David Day HAROLD JAMES. The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 268. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Henry L. Feingold CHRISTOPH FREI. Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 236. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. Mearsheimer MARTIN THOMAS. The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945–62. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xv, 287. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite P. M. H. BELL. The World since 1945: An International History. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 593. $41.50 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by T. E. Vadney TIM MAGA. Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Pp. xiv, 181. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Antonio Cassese MATTHEW PAUL BERG, ed. in collaboration with JILL LEWIS and OLIVER RATHKOLB. The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice, trans. Helen Atkins and Matthew Paul Berg. New York: Berghahn, 2000. Pp. xxix, 565. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Corinna Peniston-Bird DAVID E. LOREY and WILLIAM H. BEEZLEY, eds. Genocide, Collective Violence, and Popular Memory: The Politics of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2002. Pp. xxxiii, 258. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow JULIO CRESPO MACLENNAN. Spain and the Process of European Integration, 1957–85. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 223. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Pridham IRWIN M. WALL. France, the United States, and the Algerian War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiii,335. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Marvin R. Zahniser G. BENNETT and K. A. HAMILTON, eds. Documents on British Policy Overseas: series III: Volume III: Détente in Europe, 1972–76. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xl, 490. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Young JOHN W. GARVER. Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 447. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh PAUL DUKES. The Superpowers: A Short History. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. ix, 197. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman Saul H. MICHAEL ERISMAN. Cuba's Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiii, 270. $87.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Joaquín Roy MICHAEL HOWARD. The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 113. $15.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip Towle