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Louis H. FELDMAN. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 679. $59–50 (US). Reviewed by Uriel Rappaport AVERIL CAMERON. The Later Roman Empire: AD 284-430. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 238. $35.00 (US), cloth; $12.95 (US), paper; Reviewed by Warren Treadgold AVERIL CAMERON. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xvii, 251. $49.93 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Warren Treadgold DONALD M. NICOL. The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 463. $89.95 (US), cloth; $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald E. Queller JANICE E. THOMSON. Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modem Europe. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 219. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Paker DOUGLAS R. BISSON. The Merchant Adventurers of England: The Company and the Crown, 1474–1564. Newark, N. J.: University of Delaware Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 136. $29.50 (US). Reviewed by D.M. Loades TRAIAN STOIANOVICH. Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe. Armonk, N. Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xix, 432. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard Crampton JEREMY BLACK. European Warfare, 1660–1815. New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 276. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by GUNTHER E. ROTHENBEHG DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. The Irish Diaspora: A Primer. Toronto, Ont.: P. D. Meaney, 1993. Pp. ix, 319. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Patrick Buckland A. OWEN ALDRIDGE. The Dragon and the Eagle: The Presence of China in the American Enlightenment. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1993. Pp. 287. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Joyce E. Chaplin GEOFFREY JONES. British Multinational Banking, 1830–1990. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 511. $69.00 (US). Reviewed by Kathleen Burk PETER URBANITSCH and ADAM WANDRUSZKA, eds. Die Habsburgermonarchie, 1848–1918: Band VI/2: Die Habsburgermonarchie im System der Internationalen Beziehungen. Wien: Lieferschein Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1992. Pp. xiii, 686. ÖS 896. Reviewed by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. THOMAS SCHAAHSCHMIDT. Außenpolitik und öffentliche Meinung in Großritannien während des deutsch-französischen Krieges von 1870/71. Frankfurt: Europäische Hochschulschriften Verlag der Wissenschaft; dist. Peter Lang Publishing, 1993. Pp. 757. $98.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by George O. Kent CARL CAVANAGH HODGE. The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracies in Britain, France, and Germany. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 180. $57-95 (US). Reviewed by Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt C. J. BARTLETT. The Global Conflict: The International Rivalry of the Great Powers, 1880–1990, 2nd ed. London and New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. xi, 433. £14.99. Reviewed by P.M.H. Bell MOIRA DONALD. Marxism and Revolution: Karl Kautsky and the Russian Marxists, 1900–1924. New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 324. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark Leier GREGORY P. NOWELL. Mercantile States and the World Oil Cartel, 1900–1939. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 326. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Marian Kent LEONARD L. SMITH. Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 274. $35.00 (US); Reviewed by J. F. V. Keiger PATRICK FRIDENSON, ed. The French Home Front, 1914–1918, trans. Bruce Little. New York and Oxford: Berg; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 326. $48.50 (US). Reviewed by J. F. V. Keiger H. JAMES BURGWYN. The Legend of the Mutilated Victory: Italy, the Great War, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1915–1919. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 343. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Kent ANTHONY LIVESEY. The Viking Atlas of World War I. London: Viking, 1994. Pp. 192. No Price Available. Reviewed by T. H. E. Travers CLEM LLOYD and JACQUI REES. The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 476. $49.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Craig Wilcox PASCHALIS M. KITROMILIDES, ed. The Asia Minor Disaster and Greek Society. Athens: Bulletin of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, ix (1992). Pp. 314. No Price Available. Reviewed by Dimitri Kitsikis BETH A. SIMMONS. Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy during the Interwar Years. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 330. $39–50 (US). Reviewed by G. C. Peden LINDA KILLEN. Testing the Peripheries: US-Yugoslav Economic Relations in the Interwar Years. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 234. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert H. Van Meter MARY NOLAN. Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 324. $66.95 (CDN). Reviewed by A.J. Crozier THOMAS J. SAUNDEKS. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. x, 332. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Jerome Kuehl RAYMOND RICHARDS. Closing the Door to Destitution: The Shaping of the Social Security Acts of the United States and New Zealand. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Pp. xxx, 178. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Daniel Levine ROBERT W. MATSON. Neutrality and Navicerts: Britain, the United States, and Economic Warfare, 1939–1940. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. xiii, 195. $54.00 (US). Reviewed by Randall B. Woods GERHAHD L. WEINBERG. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 1,178. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Alexander Dallin ROBERT ALDRICH. France and the South Pacific since 1940. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 413. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by Malcolm Leader THEODORE A. WILSON, ed. D-Day, 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Pp. xxx, 420. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Russell F. Weigley THOMAS DOHERTY. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 364. $16.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Boyer HUA QINGZHAO. From Yalta to Panmunjom: Truman's Diplomacy and the Four Powers, 1945–1953. Ithaca, N. Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993. Pp. 267. $15.00 (US). Reviewed by James Fetzer MEREDITH VELDMAN. Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945–1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 325. $54–95 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Byran Palmer NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945–1992: Uncertain Friendships. Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, 1994. Pp. xvi, 337. $29.95 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William Stueck TERRY BURSTALL. Vietnam: The Australian Dilemma. St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. Pp. xxv, 329. $19.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by Glen St. J. Barclay DAVID M. BARRETT. Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1993. Pp. xii, 279. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David L. Anderson STEVEN J. HOOD. Dragons Entangled: Indochina and the China-Vietnam War. Armonk, N. Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1992. Pp. xviii, 188. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. Morris ABIGAIL B. BAKAN, DAVID COX, and COLIN LEYS, eds. Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 268. $24.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Paul Sutton RICHAHD NED LEBOW and JANICE GROSS STEIN. We All Lost the Cold War. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 542. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Coral Bell DEEPA MARY OLLAPALLY. Confronting Conflict: Domestic Factors and US Policymaking in the Third World. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. x, 217. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas J. MacDonald DAVID A. WELCH. Justice and the Genesis of War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 335. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Ann Pottinger Saab PARTHA CHATTERJEE. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 282. $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick ANDRÉ GUNDER FRANK and BARRY K. GILLS, eds. The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxii, 320. £40.00. Reviewed by Thomas D. Hall Foreign and Commonwealth Ofice: Historical Branch: Occasional Papers: No. I, ‘Valid Evidence’, November 1987; No. 2, ‘Meeting of Editors of Diplomatic Documents’, November 1989; No. 3, ‘Germany Rejoins the Club’, November 1989; No. 4, ‘Eastern Europe’, April 1992; No. 5, ‘Korea’, April 1992; No. 6, ‘Russia: Tsardom to Stalinism’, May 1993. London: Foreign and Commonwealth Office. No Price Available. Reviewed by John Ferris PATRICK M. REGAN. Organizing Societies for War: The Process and Consequences of Societal Militarization. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994. Pp. xv, 190. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Diehl BARBARA HINCKLEY. Less Than Meets the Eye: Foreign Policy Making and the Myth of the Assertive Congress. Chicago, 111. and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 252. $13.93 (US). Reviewed by Timothy A. Byrnes HOWARD H. LENTNER. State Formation in Central America: The Struggle for Autonomy, Development, and Democracy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. vi, 249. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by James D. Cochrane