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GILBERT ROZMAN, ed. The Modernization of China. New York: The Free Press, 1981. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Roger V. Des Forges DAVID STEVENSON. French War Aims Against Germany, 1914–1919. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 283. $68.75 (US). Reviewed by Richard K. Debo MICHAEL OAKESHOTT. On History and Other Essays. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1983. Pp. 198. $25.75 (US). Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Berard CURTIS T. HENSON, JR. Commissioners and Commodores: The East India Squadron and American Diplomacy in China. University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. Pp. 231. $19.75 (US). Reviewed by Lolan Wang Orady CORRELLI BARNETT. The Desert Generals. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. 351. $17.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert H. Keyserlingk KENNETH W. THOMPSON. American Diplomacy and Emergent Patterns. Washington, D.G.: University Press of America, 1983. Pp. 273. $11.50 (US). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley BRUGE MCGOWAN. Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, Trade and the Struggle for Land, 1600–1800. Studies in Modern Capitalism/Études sur le capitalisme moderne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1981. Pp. xii, 226; maps and figures. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by I. Metin Kunt ROBERT L. MESSER. The End of an Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman, and the Origins of the Cold War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. 274, Selected List of Sources, Index. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Melvyn P. Leffler DEREK MGKAY and H.M. SCOTT. The Rise of the Great Powers: The Great Powers & European States Systems, 1648–1815. London and New York: Longman. Pp. 378. $23.00 (US), paper $11.95 (US). Reviewed by K.W. Schweizer F.L. CARSTEN. War against War: British and German Radical Movements in the First World War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. 285. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen WILLIAM O. ROSENBERG and MARILYN B. YOUNG. Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 198a. $$2.50 (US), paper $7.95 (US). Reviewed by Helen R. Chauncey NORMAN MACKENZIE. The Escape from Elba: the Fall and Flight of Napoleon, 1814–15. New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 299. $14.95. Reviewed by David G. Chandler JOHN D. HARGREAVES. Aberdeenshire to Africa: Northeast Scots and British Overseas Expansion. Aberdeen University Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 95. £5. Reviewed by David S. Macmillan ORLANDO PATTERSON. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 511. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Fellman N.F. DREISZIGER (ed.). Mobilization For Total War: The Canadian, American and British Experience 1914-1918, 1939–1945. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi, 115, $9.95 (Can.). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen