Reviews of Books

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PHILIP E. TETLOCK, RICHARD NED LEBOW, and GEOFFREY PARKER, eds. Unmaking the West: ‘What-If?’ Scenarios that Rewrite World History. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. x, 415. $33.00 (US). Reviewed by Jeremy Black GETZEL M. COHEN. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 477. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Frank L. Holt JOEL ALLEN. Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 291. $93.95 (US). Reviewed by Susan Mattern ROXANNE L. EUBEN. Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 313. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid JOAN MUELLER. The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 182. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Constance Hoffman Berman RONALD S. LOVE. Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery, 1415–1800. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. Pp. xxix, 195. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Glyndwr Williams NICHOLAS P. CUSHNER. Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 255. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey Klaiber, SJ KEN MACMILLAN. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 235. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Daniel Woolf JOANNA WALEY-COHEN. The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty. London and New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Pp. xiii, 160. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Edward A. McCord R.J. W. EVANS. Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683–1867. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 337. $99.00 (US). Reviewed by Franz A. J. Szabo H. V. BOWEN. The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 304. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers F. R. BRIDGE and ROGER BULLEN. The Great Powers and the European States System, 1814–1914, 2nd ed. London and New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2005. Pp. viii, 365. £32.99, paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Wawro AVIEL ROSHWALD. The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 349. $29.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony D. Smith EDWARD M. SPIERS. The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854–1902. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. xii, 244. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie ANASTASIOS MYRODIS TAMIS. The Greeks in Australia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 205. $27.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nina Mistilis DAG BLANCK. The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 256. $79.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Odd S. Lovoll NICHOLAS ONUF and PETER ONUF. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 2006. Pp. xii, 362. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid PIETER M. JUDSON. Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 313. $49-95 (US). Reviewed by István Deák MICHÈLE MARTIN. Images at War: Illustrated Periodicals and Constructed Nations. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 302. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by John Nerone DANIEL S. MARGOLIES. Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 340. $72.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert E. May JUDITH M. BROWN. Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 197. $26.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Pieter Emmer WARWICK ANDERSON. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix,355. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Linda Bryder SADAO ASADA. From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 385. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart JAMES O'NEILL. Garrison Tales from Tonquin: An American's Stories of the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam in the l890s, ed. with intro. Charles Royster. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. lxii, 119. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Van Nguyen-Marshali LEELA GANDHI. Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 254. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Seth Koven HIROSHI MOTOMURA. Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 254. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark J. Miller XIAOYUAN Liu. Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911–1950. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center; dist. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 474. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas Howland BERNADETTE WHELAN. United States Foreign Policy and Ireland: From Empire to Independence, 1913–29. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2006. Pp. 607. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by David Harkness MARCUS FUNCK and ROGER CHICKERING, eds. Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars. Boston, MA and Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. viii, 198. $120.00 (US). Reviewed by M. B. B. Biskupski ERIC W. OSBORNE. The Battle of Heligoland Bight. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 141. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler IAN F. W. BECKETT. Home Front, 1914–1918: How Britain Survived the Great War. Kew: The National Archives, 2006; dist. Dulles, VA: International Publishers Marketing. Pp. 224. $36.00 (US); HELEN B. MCCARTNEY. Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 275. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Deborah Thom SABRINA P. RAMET. The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 817. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert M. Hayden SCOTT W. PALMER. Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 307. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Evan Mawdsley COLIN DUECK. Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 224. $29.95(US). Reviewed by Peter Trubowitz DAVID EDGERTON. Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 364. $32.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by John R. Ferris GABRIELE RANZATO. El eclipse de la democracia: La Guerra Civil española y sus orígenes, 1931–1939, trans. Fernando Borrajo. Madrid: Siglo XXI de España Editores, 2006. Pp. xxv. 691. €24.00. Reviewed by Michael Seidman DAVID D. ROBERTS. The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-Century Europe: Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics. New York, NY and London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xii, 579. $43.00 (US). Reviewed by Giuseppe Finaldi DAVIDE RODOGNO. Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War, trans. Adrian Belton. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 504. $99.00 (US); ALESSANDRO ROSELLI. Italy and Albania: Financial Relations in the Fascist Period. London and New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 209. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Alexander De Grand CHRISTOPHER LAYNE. The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 290. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles A. Kupchan HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE. Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 701. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen RAFFAEL SCHECK. Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 202. $65.00 (US); GREGORY MANN. Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix,333. $23.95 (US), paper. James E. Genova RUTH BETTINA BIRN. Die Sicherheitspolizei in Estland, 1941–1944: Eine Studie zur Kollaboration im Osten. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2006. Pp. 286. €34.90. Reviewed by Andres Kasekamp PETER EDWARDS. Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Pp. xii, 339. $49.95 (AUS). Reviewed by David Lowe R. B. SMITH. Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943–93: Transformations and Continuities, ed. Chad J. Mitcham. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xv, 260. $120.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Lowe STANLEY WOLPERT. Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 238. $28.00 (US). Ian Talbot DEREK S. ZUMBRO. Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. viii, 447. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Citino MICHAEL GEHLER. Vom Marshall-Plan bis zur EU: Österreich und die europüische Integration von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2006. Pp. 506. €53.00. Reviewed by William Glenn Gray PETER J. BECK. Using History, Making British Policy: The Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950–76. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; dist. Bolton, ON: H. B. Fenn. Pp. xii, 310. $93.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Richard S. Grayson CHRIS TUDDA. The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 224. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Ira Chernus MARK MOYAR. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 512. $32.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence W. Serewicz LAWRENCE W. SEREWICZ. America at the Brink of Empire: Rusk, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 233. $66.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton GAWDAT BAHGAT. Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. viii, 187. $101.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Frederick F. Anscombe DALE R. HERSPRING. The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xiv, 242. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Alexander Hill TIM ALLEN. Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army. London and New York, NY: Zed Books, 2006; dist. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing. Pp. xvi, 230. $24.95 (CDN) paper. Reviewed by Manisuli Ssenyonjo HERMAN LEBOVICS. Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 172. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Dane Kennedy JEFFREY RUOFF, ed. Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 298. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Catherine Russell ANDREA KATHRYN TALENTINO. Military Intervention after the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice. Athens, OH: Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 2005. Pp. xvi, 364. $26.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Chandler VIVIEN A. SCHMIDT. Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 317. $27.95 (US), paper; JAN ZIELONKA. Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 293. $74.00 (US). Reviewed by John Gillingham A. JAMES GREGOR. The Search for Neofascism: The Use and Abuse of Social Science. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $23.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth DAVID KENNEDY. Of War and Law. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 191. $18.95 (US). Reviewed by Colin S. Gray FRED CHARLES IKLÉ. Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 142. $24.50 (US). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley HAROLD JAMES. The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 166. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by George Modelski JONAS PONTUSSON. Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 242. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Stonecash GEORGE H. QUESTER. Nuclear First Strike: Consequences of a Broken Taboo. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 159. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Martha Smith-Norris EVELIN LINDNER. Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xix, 224. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Diehl