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CHARLES KING. The Black Sea: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 276. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed By John P. Ledonne ANDREW GILLETT. Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 335. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard A. Gerberding TIM PESTELL and KATHARINA ULMSCHNEIDER, eds. Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and ‘Productive’ Sites, 650–850. Macclesfield: Windgather Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 304. £25.00. Reviewed by Richard Morris KENNETH CHASE. Firearms: A Global History to 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 290. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Bert S. Hall OLIVIA REMIE CONSTABLE. Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 427. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Molly Greene PAUL STEPHENSON. The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 164. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Walter E. Kaegi MARCUS BULL and NORMAN HOUSLEY, eds. The Experience of Crusading: I: Western Approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 307. $60.00 (US); PETER EDBURY and JONATHAN PHILLIPS, eds. The Experience of Crusading: II: Defining the Crusader Kingdom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 311. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Tyerman MICHAEL ANGOLD. The Fourth Crusade: Event and Context. Harlow and New York: Pearson Longman, 2003. Pp. xxii, 281. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard ROBERT BARTLETT. The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 168. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael D. Barber ANDRE WINK. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: III: Indo-islamic Society, 14th$5th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. x, 282. €93.00. Reviewed by Sanjay Subrahmanyam GEORGE E. BROOKS. Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 355. $26.95 (US). Reviewed by Allen M. Howard FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO. The Americas: The History of a Hemisphere. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. Pp. 199. £12.99. Reviewed by Lester D. Langley WILLIAM B. COHEN. The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530–1880. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 360. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Martin Klein JOSÉ C. CURTO. Enslaving Spirits: The Portuguese-Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and Its Hinterland c. 1550–1830. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. xiv, 252. €74.00. Reviewed by A.J.R. RUSSELL-WOOD EBERHARD SCHMITT and THOMAS BECK, eds. Das Leben in den Kolonien. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. Pp. xv, 546. €68.00. Reviewed by Hermann Wellenreuther T. M. DEVINE. Scotland's Empire, 1600–1815. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 473. $50.00 (CDN). Reviewed By Bruce P. Lenman GLYN REDWORTH. The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 200. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Kishlansky W.J. ECCLES. Frontenac: The Courtier Governor. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003, intro. Peter Moogk. Pp. xv,4o6. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Luca Codignola DEREK BEALES. Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650–1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 395. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Franz A.J. Szabo JAMES CRACRAFT. The Revolution of Peter the Great. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $25.95 (US). Reviewed by Lindsey Hughes JULIAN GWYN. Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745–1815. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 206. $27.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Paul Webb HAROLD MAH. Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750–1914. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 227. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Margaret C.Jacob ANTHONY J. HALL. The Bowl with One Spoon: I: The American Empire and the Fourth World. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xlv, 683. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed By Robin Ridington DAVID C. HENDRICKSON. Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xiv, 402. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by ELIGA H. GOULD LAURENT DUBOIS. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. x, 452. $37.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by William S. Cormack PRADEEP P. BARUA. Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps, 1817–1949. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Raymond A. Callahan WILLIAM R. SUMMERHILL. Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 297. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Todd A. Diacon JAMES L. HEVIA. English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 387. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John E. Wills, Jr. JAMES P. FLINT, OSB. Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846–1852. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 301. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed By Alan J. Reinerman ROBERT J. BLYTH. The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa, and the Middle East, 1858–1947. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. x, 270. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by John Darwin GALEN ROGER PERRAS. Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867–1945. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 274. $85.00 (CDN), cloth; $25.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Terrence M. Cole NEVILLE KIRK. Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers, and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA, and Australia from the 1880s to 1914. London: Merlin Press, 2003; dist. Marshfield, MA: Paul & Co. Pp. x, 230. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William Kenefick JOHN E. VAN SANT, ed., annotated, and intro. Mori Arinori's ‘Life and Resources in America’. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. xli, 163. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by F. G. Notehelfer PETER WINZEN. Reichskanzler Bernhard Fürst von Bülow: Weltmachtstratege ohne Fortune — Wegbereiter der groβen Katastrophe. Göttingen and Zurich: Muster-Schmidt Verlag, 2003. Pp. 185. €14.00, paper. Reviewed by Kenneth W. Rock IOANNA LALIOTOU. Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 257. $21.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James R. Barrett JORMA AHVENAINEN. The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004; dist. Helsinki: Bookstore Tiedkirja. Pp. 427. €35.00, paper. Reviewed by Daniel R. Headrick CHRISTIAN RÖDEL. Krieger, Denker, Amateure: Alfred von Tirpitz und das Seekriegsbild vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. x, 234. €48.00, paper. Reviewed by Mark D. Karau LILIANA SAIU. Stati Uniti e Italia nella Grande Guerra, 1914–1918. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. Pp. xiv, 255. €27.00, paper. Reviewed by Geoff Haywood ROBIN HIGHAM. 100 Tears of Air Power and Aviation. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 435. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Conrad C. Crane KEN'ICHI GOTO. Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, ed. with intro. Paul H. Kratoska. Athens: Ohio University Press; Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 349. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Duus MAE M. NGAI. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 377. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David M. Reimers GAWDAT BAHGAT. American Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. xvi, 213. $39.95 (US); SHAFI ALDAMER. Saudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939–1953. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2003; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. ix, 277. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Frederick F. Anscombe JOAN BEAUMONT, CHRISTOPHER WATERS, DAVID LOWE, with GARRY WOODARD. Ministers, Mandarins, and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941–1969. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2003; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xi, 223. $39.95 (AUS), paper; PETER EDWARDS and DAVID GOLDSWORTHY, eds. Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia: II: 1970s to 2000. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xxii, 467. $52.95 (US). Reviewed by David Mclean JAMES P. LEVY. The Royal Navy's Home Fleet in World War II. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvii, 222. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher M. Bell MARC MILNER. Battle of the Atlantic. St Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. 255. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed By Joseph A. Maiolo K. H. ADLER. Jews and Gender in Liberation France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 273. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Alice L. Conklin SIMON C. SMITH. Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950–71. London and New York: RoudedgeCurzon, 2004. Pp. vii, 210. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Tore Tingvold Petersen ALAN MCPHERSON. Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in US-Latin American Relations. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 257. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by David Sheinin WARREN BASS. Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US-Israel Alliance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 336. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter L. Hahn ANDREAS W. DAUM. Kennedy in Berlin: Politik, Kultur, und Emotionen int Kalten Krieg. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 271. €24.90. Reviewed by Manfred Jonas LAWRENCE S. WITTNER. The Struggle against the Bomb: III: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 657. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michel Fortmann PETER HAYS GRIES. China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 215. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Qiang Zhai BRADLEY REED HOWARD. Indigenous Peoples and the State: The Struggle for Native Rights. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. 252. $42.00 (US). Reviewed by Adrian Tanner DEEN K. CHATTERJEE and DON E. SCHEID, eds. Ethics and Foreign Intervention. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 301. $58.00 (US). Reviewed by Jennifer M. Welsh RICHARD NED LEBOW. The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests, and Orders. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 405. $75.00 (US), cloth; $27.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Terry Nardin MARTHA FINNEMORE. The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 173. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Hendrik Spruyt T. V. PAUL, G.JOHN IKENBERRY, and JOHN A. HALL, eds. The Nation-State in Question. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 384. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.95 (US), paper; ROBERT I. ROTBERG, ed. When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 335. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow CHARLES LIPSON. Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 259. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by James Lee Ray

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