Wordsworth’s Epitaphic Poetics and the Print Market

New Books across the Disciplines

FERGUS MILLAR. A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450). Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 279. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by H.A. Drake ERIC J. GOLDBERG. Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817–876. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 388. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by John J. Contreni AVNER GREIF. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 503. $34.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Clyde G. Reed MARCEL DORIGNY and BERNARD GAINOT, with cartographer FABRICE LE GOFF. Atlas des Esclavages: Traites, sociétés coloniales, abolitions de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Paris: Éditions Autrement, 2006. Pp. 79. €15.00, paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Black NICHOLAS WARNER. The True Description of Cairo, A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View. I. New York, NY: The Arcadian Library in assoc. with Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 216; II. Pp. 237; III. Fold-out of the 2x1 metre view. $425.00 (US). Reviewed by Deborah Howard G. W. BERNARD. The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 736. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Alec Ryrie TROY O. BICKHAM. Savages within the Empire: Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford and New York, NY: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 301. $90.00 (US); TIMFULFORD. Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756–1830. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 318. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Cayton ROBERT D. CREWS. For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 463. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Daniel Brower BRIAN W. RICHARDSON. Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 240. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Alan Frost COLIN DYER. The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians, 1772–1839. St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2005; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp. xi, 240. $32.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by David Andrew Roberts ROBERT J. ALLISON. Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779–1820. Amherst and Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf MARK L. HAAS. The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789–1889. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 232. $39.95 (US); DARYL G. PRESS. Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 218. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Norrin M. Ripsman DAVID ARNOLD. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 298. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick PATTY O'BRIEN. The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific. Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. x, 347. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Max Quanchi JOÃO PEDRO MARQUES. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, trans. Richard Wall. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006. Pp. xix, 282. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by A.J.R. Russell-Wood DONALD R. HICKEY. Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006; dist: Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xxix, 430. $50.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart MICHEL GOBAT. Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under US Imperial Rule. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 373. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nancy Mitchell STEPHEN A. TOTH. Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854– 1952. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 212. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ruth Ginio DANIEL ZIBLATT. Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 220. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Andr´ Bächtiger TIBOR FRANK. Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1865–1870. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2005, and Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 444. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by F.R. Bridge GIAN ENRICO RUSCONI. Deutschland-Italien, Italien-Deutschland: Geschichte einer schwierigen Beziehung von Bismarck bis zu Berlusconi. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2006. Pp. xii, 410. €39.90. Reviewed by Alan Cassels PAUL T. MCCARTNEY. Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of i8g8, and the Rise of American Imperialism. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 373. $84.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich GERGELY ROMSICS. Myth and Remembrance: The Dissolution of the Habsburg Empire in the Memoir Literature of the Austro-Hungarian Political Elite, trans. Thomas J. DeKornfeld and Helen D. Hiltabidle. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2006, and Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 278. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt TAMARA LOOS. Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 212. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Maurizio Peleggi JAY WINTER. Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 261. $28.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid PETER J. HEMPENSTALL and PAULA TANAKA MOCHIDA. The Lost Man: Wilhelm Solf in German History. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. Pp. xii, 279. €68.00, paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier SYLVIA KEDOURIE, ed. Elie Kedourie's Approaches to History and Political Theory: ‘The Thoughts and Actions of Living Men’. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii, 182. £65.00. Reviewed by Roger Adelson TIM COOK. Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 326. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Terry Copp KEITH JEFFERY. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 325. $105.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith Neilson CINDY SKACH. Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 151. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by D. B. Goldey NORMAN E. SAUL. Friends or Foes? The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921–1941. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xviii, 434. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger JAMIE H. COCKFIELD, ed. Black Lebeda: The Russian Famine Diary of ARA Kazan District Supervisor J. Rives Childs, 1921–1923. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 199. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by David W. McFadden DAVID P. BILLINGTON, JR. Lothian: Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. x, 252. $129.95 (US). Reviewed by George Egerton PETER NEVILLE. Hitler and Appeasement: The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War. London and New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. xiii, 240. £19.99. Reviewed by Neville Thompson MARK A. STOLER. Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945. London and New York, NY: Hodder Arnold, 2005. Pp. xxv, 292. £25.00; DANIEL C. WILLIAMSON. Separate Agendas: Churchill, Eisenhower, and Anglo-American Relations, 1953–1955. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. v, 144. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John Charmley ROBERT COLE. Propaganda, Censorship, and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 196. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Trevor C. Salmon WAYNE H. BOWEN. Spain during World War II. Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. x, 279. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Seidman TERRY COPP. Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 407. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett JAMES A. WOOD. We Move Only Forward: Canada, the United States, and the First Special Service Force 1942–1944. St Catharines, ON: Vanwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 238. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond Morton FRANK BIESS. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 367. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Günter Bischof HORST BOOG, GERHARD KREBS, and DETLEF VOGEL. Germany and the Second World War: VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943–1944/5, trans. Derry Cook-Radmore, Francisca Garvie, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, and Barbara Wilson. New York, NY: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 892. $250.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes EMANUELE BERNARDI. La riforma agraria in Italia e gli Stati Uniti: Guerra fredda, Piano Marshall e interventi per il Mezzogiorno negli anni del centrismo degasperiano. Bologna: II Mulino, 2006. Pp. 397. €28.00, paper; ANDREA BONOLDI and ANDREA LEONARDI, eds. La rinascita economica dell'Europa: Il piano Marshall e l'area alpina. Milan: Franco Angeli, 2006. Pp. 243. €21.00. Reviewed by D. W. Ellwood ELIZABETH EDWARDS SPALDING. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. ix, 323. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael F. Hopkins ROBERT DAVID JOHNSON. Congress and the Cold War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxii, 346. $25.99 (US), paper; KENNETH OSGOOD. Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xiv, 506. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Scott Lucas CHAD J. MITCHAM. China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949–79: Grain, Trade, and Diplomacy. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xxi, 281. $122.00 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk CHARLES GATI. Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1936 Hungarian Revolt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 264. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Bennet Kovrig JACQUELINE ROSE. The Question of Zion. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 202. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Laurence J. Silberstein KIMBERLY KATZ. Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xvi, 214. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Dumper ELIZABETH STEPHENS. US Policy towards Israel: The Role of Political Culture in Defining the ‘Special Relationship’. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. Pp. xi,339. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by Michelle Mart HENDRIK SPRUYT. Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 305. $22.50 (US), paper; TORE T. PETERSEN. The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961–1969: A Willing Retreat. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 181. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by John Darwin ROBERTO RABEL. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005; dist. Chicago, IL: Independent Publishers Group. Pp. xi, 443. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Glen St J. Barclay SOPHIE MEUNIER. Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 223. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher J. Gerry FRANCESCO DUINA. The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 249. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Mira Wilkins MARÍA CRISTINA GARCÍA. Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 273. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Linda B. Hall ABDUL SALAM A. MAJALI, JAWAD A. ANANI, and MUNTHERJ. HADDADIN. Peacemaking: The Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Treaty. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 353. £35.00. Reviewed by Nigel J. Ashton REKHA SAXENA. Situating Federalism: Mechanisms of Intergovernmental Relations in Canada and India. New Delhi: Manohar, 2006. Pp. 356. Rs 795. Reviewed by Caroline Andrew CHRISTINE INGEBRITSEN, IVER NEUMANN, SIEGLINDE GSTÖHL, and JESSICA BEYER, eds. Small States in International Relations. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press; and Reykjavik: University of Iceland, 2006. Pp. 334. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ole Elgström STEPHEN G. BROOKS. Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Jones NGAIRE WOODS. The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 253. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by D. E. Moggridge FRANKJ. LECHNER and JOHN BOLI. World Culture: Origins and Consequences. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. 267. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard E. Lee S. NEIL MACFARLANE and YUEN FOONG KHONG. Human Security and the UN: A Critical History. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 346. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gary B. Ostrower RANDALL L. SCHWELLER. Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 182. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles F. Doran

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“New Books across the Disciplines” is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British publishers. Other European titles are included whenever received. Books are classified under variable topical headings and listed alphabetically by author's name. Entries include complete bibliographical data and annotations. Unless designated for paperback editions, prices given are for cloth editions. For paperback reprint editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution.The topics for this issue include: Editions and translationsManuscripts and printed booksChurch, reform, and devotionScience and medicineThe natural worldThe everydayAstell, Ann W., and Joseph Wawrykow, eds. Three Pseudo-Bernadine Works. With the assistance of Thomas Clemmons. Translated by members of the Catena Scholarium at the University of Notre Dame. Introduction by Dom Elias Dietz, OCSO. Cistercian Studies Series, vol. 273. Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2018. xv, 160 pp. Paper $29.95. [Translations of Formula honestae vitae, Instructio sacerdotalis, and Tractatus de statu virtutum humilitatis, obedientiae, tomoris, et charitatis.]Bernard, of Clairvaux. Various Sermons. Translated by Grace Remington, OCSO. Introduction by Alice Chapman. Cistercian Fathers Series, vol. 84. Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2020. xlix, 99 pp. Paperback $24.95. [Ten sermons on feast days.]Black, Joseph L., ed. The Martin Marprelate Press: A Documentary History. Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Tudor and Stuart Texts, vol. 5. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2020. 170 pp. Paper $21.95. [Collection of twenty edited documents, mainly from manuscript and archival sources, connected with the underground press that produced the anti-episcopal Martin Marprelate tracts (1588–89).]Böckerman, Robin Wahlsten, ed. and trans. The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid: Clm 4610, the Earliest Documented Commentary on the “Metamorphoses.” Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020. 386 pp., 4 color illus. Gbp 33.95, paper Gbp 23.95. [First critical edition of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, clm 4610, which dates to ca. 1100 and is the earliest systematic study of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Latin text with facing-page English translation.]Bokenham, Osbern. Lives of Saints, vol. 1. Edited by Simon Horobin. Early English Text Society, o.s., vol. 356. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2020. xi, 417 pp., 1 plate. $85.00. [Bokenham's translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, complemented by lives of various British saints, is the first edition of a major work by the fifteenth-century English poet and translator. Vol. 1 of the projected three-volume edition contains the introduction and 65 of the 180 lives.]Caxton, William. Caxton's “Golden Legend,” Volume 1: Temporale. Edited by Mayumi Taguchi, John Scahill, and Satoko Tokunaga. Early English Text Society, o.s., vol. 355. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2020. lxxxviii, 236 pp., 4 illus. $85.00. [First scholarly edition of Caxton's English translation of the Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea printed in 1483–84.]Cudworth, Ralph. Origenes Cantabrigiensis: Ralph Cudworth, “Predigt vor dem Unterhaus” un adnere Schriften. Edited and translated by Alfons Fürst and Christian Hengstermann. Adamantiana, vol. 11. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. 311 pp. eur 54.00. [Editions of the letters, poems, and sermons by the Anglican clergyman and theologian, Ralph Cudworth, accompanied by six articles on his writings. English and Latin texts with facing-page German translations.]Da Vinci, Leonardo. Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester: A New Edition. Edited and translated by Domenico Laurenza and Martin Kemp. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Vol. 1 (83 pp.) contains a facsimile reproduction of the codex; vol. 2 (xv, 242 pp., 74 figs.) presents the history of the codex with interpretive essays; vol. 3 (x, 322 pp.) presents a transcription and English translation; vol. 4 (310 pp.) presents a modern English paraphrase and page-by-page commentary on the text. $390.00. [The four-volume edition of Leonardo's scientific notebook (36 folios) offers the first serious reconstruction of his legacy as a scientist.]Daniel, Henry. Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition. Edited by E. Ruth Harvey, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Sarah Star, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xix, 511 pp., 1 illus. $100.00. [Edition of the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English (1370s).]Erasmus, Desiderius. Erasmus on the New Testament: Selections from the “Paraphrases,” the “Annotations,” and the Writings on Biblical Interpretation. Edited and translated by Robert D. Sider. Erasmus Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xvi, 331 pp. $94.00, paper $47.95. [Translation of selections from Erasmus's voluminous writings on the New Testament.]Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo. Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's “Four Books on Human Proportion”: Renaissance Proportion Theory. Translated and edited by James Hutson. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020. xiii, 208 pp., 18 figs. Gbp 37.95, paper Gbp 22.95. [The first English translation of Gallucci's Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Dürer's treatise.]Gerhard Zerbolt, von Zutphen. Was dürfen Laien lesen? De libris teutonicalibus / Een verclaringhe vanden duytshcen boeken. Edited by Nikolaus Staubach and Rudolf Suntrup. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2019. 214 pp., 1 fig. eur 48.00. [Latin text of a tract by the learned priest and librarian in the house of the Brothers of the Common Life in Deventer, which defended the right of laypeople to read the Bible in the vernacular, followed by a contemporary Dutch translation from the author's circle.]Gottfried, von Strassburg. “Tristan and Isolde” with Ulrich von Türheim's “Continuation.” Translated and edited by William T. Whobrey. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2020. xxxiii, 321 pp. $49.00, paper $18.00. [English prose translation of Gottfried's Middle High German verse romance and Ulrich's Continuation.]Guillaume, de Machaut. The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2: The Boethian Poems; “Le Remede de Fortune,” “Le Confort d'Ami.” Edited and translated by R. Barton Palmer. Music edited by Uri Smilansky. Art historical commentary by Domenic Leo. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS in association with the University of Rochester, 2019. ix, 607 pp., 39 figs., 16 musical examples. Paper $39.95. [Old French verse texts with facing-page English verse translations, with accompanying music and art program of the base manuscript.]Hexter, Ralph, Laura Pfundter, and Justin Haynes, eds. and trans. Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, vol. 62. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xxxiv, 510 pp. $35.00. [The first comprehensive collection of Latin “medieval Ovid” verse texts with facing-page English prose translations.]John, of Garland. John of Garland's “De triumphis Ecclesie”: A New Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation. Edited and translated by Martin Hall. Studia Artistarum, vol. 44. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2019. 417 pp., 10 color illus. $111.00. [Latin verse text with facing-page English prose translation.]Jones, Catherine M., William W. Kibler, and Logan E. Whalen, trans. An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. ix, 214 pp., 1 map, 1 genealogy. $85.00. [Modern English verse translations of The Coronation of Louis, The Convoy to Nîmes, and The Conquest of Orange.]Kaufman, Alexander L., ed. The Jack Cade Rebellion of 1450: A Sourcebook. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. xii, 257 pp. $95.00. [Thirty-two medieval and early modern primary source documents on the Jack Cade rebellion.]Kramer, Johanna, Hugh Magennis, and Robin Norris, eds. and trans. Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, vol. 63. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xxxix, 764 pp. $35.00. [Twenty-two unattributed Anglo-Saxon prose texts of the eleventh and twelfth centuries with facing-page English translations.]Laurence, of Březová. Origins of the Hussite Uprising: The Chronicle of Laurence of Březová (1414–1421). Translated and edited by Thomas A. Fudge. Routledge Medieval Translations. London: Routledge, 2020. xiv, 284 pp., 4 figs., 3 maps. $160.00. [First English-language translation of the most important source on the early Hussite movement, De gestis et variis accidentibus regni Bohemiae.]Luft, Diana, ed. and trans. Medieval Welsh Medical Texts, Volume 1: The Recipes. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. xii, 611 pp. Paper $60.00. [First critical edition of the corpus of late medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. Welsh texts with facing-page English translations.]Lydgate, John. John Lydgate's “Dance of Death” and Related Works. Edited by Megan L. Cook and Elzaveta Strakhov. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS in association with the University of Rochester, 2019. vii, 195 pp. Paper $19.95. [Includes both versions of Lydgate's Dance of Death, his French source, the Danse macabre (with English translation), and related Middle English verse.]Melick, Elizabeth, Susanna Fein, and David Raybin, eds. The Roland and Otuel Romances and the Anglo-French “Otinel.” TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for the Rossell Hope Robbins Research Library, in collaboration with the University of Rochester Department of English and the Teaching Association for Medieval Studies, 2019. viii, 377 pp. Paper $24.95.Metochites, Theodoros. On Morals or Concerning Education [Ēthikos ē Peri paideias]. Translated and edited by Sophia Xenophontos. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, vol. 61. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xxvi, 285 pp. $35.00. [Byzantine Greek text with facing-page English translation.]Meyer, Johannes. Women's History in the Age of Reformation: Johannes Meyer's “Chronicle of the Dominican Observance” [Buch der Reformacio Predigerordens]. Translated and edited by Claire Taylor Jones. Saint Michael's College Mediaeval Translations. Medieval Sources in Translation, vol. 58. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019. vi, 306 pp., 2 maps. Paper $35.00.Miles, Joanna, ed. The Devil's Mortal Weapons: An Anthology of Late Medieval and Protestant Vernacular Theology and Popular Culture. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018. xvi, 400 pp. Paperback $35.00. [Original transcriptions of source selections organized around the topics of soul, emotion, spiritual health, body, mind, and physical health.]Moreau-Guibert, Kerine, ed. Pore Caitif: A Middle English Manual of Religion and Devotion. Textes Vernaculaires du Moyen Age, vol. 24. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2019. 293 pp. Paper $111.00.Peter, the Venerable. Les écrits anti-sarrasins de Pierre le Vénérable: Cultures de combat et combat de cultures; “Summa totius haeresis Sarracenorum,” “Epistola de translatione sua,” “Contra sectam sive haeresim Sarracenorum.” Edited and translated by Alain Galonnier. Preface by Dominique Iogna-Prat. Philosophes Médiévaux, vol. 67. Leuven, Belg.: Peeters for Éditions de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2020. vii, 386 pp. Paperback $128.00. [Latin texts followed by French translations.]Robins, William, ed. Historia Apollonii regis Tyri: A Fourteenth-Century Version of a Late Antique Romance. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, vol. 36. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 2019. xi, 123 pp. Paperback $17.95. [Edited from Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vaticanus latinus 1961.]Rypon, Robert. Selected Sermons, Volume 1: Feast Days and Saints’ Days. Edited and translated by Holly Johnson. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, vol. 24.1. Leuven, Belg.: Peeters, 2019. 375 pp. Paper $84.00. [Latin texts with facing-page English translations.]Schieberle, Misty, ed. Christine de Pizan's Advice for Princes in Middle English Translation: Stephen Scrope's “The Epistle of Othea” and the Anonymous “Litel Bibell of Knyghthod.” TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for the Rossell Hope Robbins Research Library, in collaboration with the University of Rochester Department of English and the Teaching Association for Medieval Studies, 2020. viii, 491 pp. $99.00, paper $39.95.Short, Ian, trans. and ed. Three Anglo-Norman Kings: “The Lives of William the Conqueror and Sons” by Benoît de Sainte-Maure [Histoire des ducs de Normandie]. Mediaeval Sources in Translation, vol. 57. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018. viii, 228 pp. Paperback $25.00. [Prose translation of the last quarter of Benoît's epic verse chronicle.]Solopova, Elizabeth, Jeremy Catto, and Anne Hudson, eds. From the Vulgate to the Vernacular: Four Debates on an English Question c. 1400. British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, vol. 7. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2020. cxliv, 216 pp., 8 plates. $150.00. [Four texts on the legitimacy, for and against, of using the vernacular language for scriptural citation, including Latin works by the Franciscan William Butler, the Dominican Thomas Palmer, and the secular priest Richard Ullerston (edited for the first time), and an English Wycliffite adaptation of Ullerston's Latin. The Latin texts include facing-page English translations.]Bourne, Claire M. L. Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xviii, 328 pp., 73 illus. $90.00. [Considers how the theatricality of early modern English drama is conveyed creatively through printed playbook typography and page design.]Bousmanne, Bernard, and Elena Savini, eds. The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020. 205 pp., 165 color plates. eur 75.00. [Anthology of articles with a catalogue of the library's collection of 280 surviving manuscripts housed in the Royal Library of Belgium.]Calhoun, Joshua. The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. xii, 212 pp., 30 illus. $55.00.Chenoweth, Katie. The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 350 pp. $69.95.Connolly, Margaret, and Raluca Radulescu, eds. Editing and Interpretation of Middle English Texts: Essays in Honour of William Marx. Texts and Transitions, vol. 12. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2018. xix, 351 pp., 30 black-and-white and 2 color illus., 6 tables. eur 95.00. [Essays treating various types of manuscript evidence in relation to editing as an act of textual interpretation.]Fox, Adam. The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500–1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ix, 449 pp., 60 illus. $100.00.Hirschler, Konrad. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ’Abd Al-Hādī. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2020. x, 612 pp., 20 black-and-white and 79 color illus. Gbp 85.00. [On the largest private book collection from the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which the corpus of manuscripts and a documentary paper trail survives.]Kwakkel, Erik, ed. Vernacular Manuscript Culture, 1000–1500. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2018. 278 pp., 23 figs., 22 plates. eur 40.50.Rouse, Richard H., and Mary A. Rouse. Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists and Artisans, 1500–1715. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019. 280 pp., 56 color and black-and-white plates. eur 125.00. [Study of the commercial manuscript book trade in Paris, including a biographical register of more than five hundred named illuminators.]Rudy, Kathryn M. Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2019. xvi, 356 pp., 137 color illus. Gbp 59.95, paper Gbp 22.95.Sawyer, Daniel. Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c. 1350–c. 1500. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii, 208 pp., 9 figs. $80.00. [Investigates how the reading of poetry happened in the material context of and Text A History. Text University Press, 2020. xii, pp., black-and-white and color plates. Paper and Jeremy Catto, eds. Books and in Early Modern Essays to James in Mediaeval Studies, vol. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018. 449 pp., 10 figs. Les des de vol. et de de 2 vols. 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CHRISTON I. ARCHER, JOHN R. FERRIS, HOLGER H. HERWIG, and TIMOTHY H. E. TRAVERS. World History of Warfare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 626. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn ANGELOS CHANIOTIS and PIERRE DUCREY, eds. Army and Power in the Ancient World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. viii, 204. €44.00, paper. Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein MARTIN CARVER, ed. The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300. York: York Medieval Press, University of York; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 588. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by John Howe DANIEL CANER. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 325. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John J. Contreni HUGH KENNEDY. The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. 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Pp. ix, 307. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Wolfe WADE G. DUDLEY. Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. Pp. xiv, 96. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell ALISON WEIR. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley. New York: Ballantine, 2003. Pp. xvii, 670. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Jane E. A. Dawson DAVID FREEDBERG. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 513. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Steven F. Ostrow RICHARD LAWTON and ROBERT LEE, eds. Population and Society in Western European Port-Cities, c. 1650–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xx, 385. –75.95 (US). Reviewed by Dudley Baines PETER KRUGER and PAUL W. SCHRODER, eds., in co-operation with KATJA WUSTENBECKER. 'The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848': Episode or Model in Modern History? Munster: Lit Verlag, 2002. Pp. 356. €35.90. Reviewed by James J. Sheehan ROBERT L. SCHEINA. Latin America's Wars: I: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 569. $29.95 (US), paper; CHRIS LEUCHARS. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 254. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna JOHN GASCOIGNE, with the assistance of PATRICIA CURTHOYS. The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 233. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Marian Quartly ROBERT J. ANTONY and JANE KATE LEONARD, eds. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2002. Pp. xiii, 333. $19.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John W. Dardess JOEL MOKYR. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 359. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Lindenfeld DANIEL H. BAYS and GRANT WACKER, eds. The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. x, 332. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion MIMI COLLIGAN. Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xvi, 250. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Philippa Mein Smith MICHAEL STURMA. South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. x, 193. $63.95 (US) Reviewed by Vicki Luker SUDIPTA SEN. Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 216. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. J. Marshall CHARLES ESDAILE. The Peninsular War: A New History. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 587. $49.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer MARKUS MOSSLANG, SABINE FREITAG, and PETER WENDE, eds. British Envoys to Germany, 1816–1866: II: 1830–1847. New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society in Association with the German Historical Institute, London, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 600. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John Clarke SEYMOUR DRESCHER. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 307. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen PATRICK KARL O'BRIEN and ARMAND CLESSE, eds. Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846–1914 and the United States 1941–2001. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiii, 369. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by William R. Thompson HOLLIS CLAYSON. Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–71). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 485. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Gay L. Gullickson JEFFREY W. CODY. Exporting American Architecture, 1870–2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xviii, 205. $39-95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Annabel Jane Wharton MICHAEL SCHMID. Der ≫Eiserne Kanzler≪ und die Generäle: Deutsche Rüstungs-politik in der Ära Bismarck (1871–1890). Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. xii, 751. €65.00. Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener JULIE A. CHARLIP. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers ofCarazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2003. Pp. xiv, 288. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Thompson ROBERT O. COLLINS. The Nile. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 260. $39.95 (US); HEATHER J. SHARKEY. Living with Colo-nialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 232. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. W. Daly CRAIG WILCOX. Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899–1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 541. $75.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith Surridge MARGARET MACMILLAN and FRANCINE MCKENZIE, eds. Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 288. $85.00 (CDN), cloth; $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell MARK BLYTH. Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 284. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James K. Galbraith DANIEL JOSEPH WALTHER. Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 268. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jan-Bart Gewald STEVEN G. MARKS. How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 393. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by William G. Rosenberg RICHARD F. HAMILTON and HOLGER H. HERWIG, eds. The Origins of World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 537. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Dominic Lieven CHARLES DE GAULLE. The Enemy's House Divided, trans, and annotated, and with an intro., by Robert Eden. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 1, 177. $53.75 (CDN). Reviewed by John S. Hill STÉPHANE AUDOIN-ROUZEAU and ANNETTE BECKER. 1914–1918: Understanding the Great War, trans. Catherine Temerson. London: Profile Books, 2002. Pp. v, 280. £15.00. Reviewed by Brian Bond PAUL NUGENT. Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Lie of the Borderlands since 1914. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 302. –24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Dimitri Van Den Bersselaar ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FÖRSTER, eds. The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919–1939. Washington: German Historical Institute, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 364. –60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett GAYNOR JOHNSON. The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920–1926. Basing-stoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xi, 221. –65.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier IGNÁC ROMSICS. The Dismantling of Historic Hungary: The Peace Treaty of Trianon, 1920, trans. Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder: East European Monographs; Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications, 2002; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. v, 201. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Sakmyster ALAN DAWLEY. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 409. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David S. Foglesong PRASENJIT DUARA. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xiii, 306. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. Stephan SANDRA WILSON. The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931–33. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 252. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Antony Best IAN NISH. Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. x, 212. $65.95 (US). Reviewed by Frederick Dickinson RAINER F. SCHMIDT. Die Aussenpolitik des Dritten Reiches, 1933–1939. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2002. Pp. 448. €25.00. Reviewed by Erich J. Hahn HENRY G. GOLE. The Road to Rainbow: Army Planning for Global War, 1934–1940. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 224. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Stoler HELEN GRAHAM. The Spanish Republic at War, 1936–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 472. $70.00 (US), cloth; $26.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Willard C. Frank, Jr. FLORENTINO RODAO. Franco y el imperio japonés: Imágenes y propaganda en tiempos de guerra. Barcelona: Plaza and Janés, 2002. Pp. 668. €18.00 Reviewed by Raanan Rein ALEXANDER B. ROSSINO. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atro-city. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xv, 343. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. Kulczycki RICHARD F. HILL. Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Pp. vii, 227. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Freeman Smith PETER SCHRIJVERS. The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 320. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Marc Gallicchio JON LATIMER. Alamein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 400. $27.95 (US); MARK JOHNSTON and PETER STANLEY. Alamein: The Australian Story. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 314. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Saul Kelly CHARLIE WHITHAM. Bitter Rehearsal: British and American Planning for a Post-war West Indies. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 224. –69.95 (US). Reviewed by J. Simon Rofe JONATHAN E. 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A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xx, 272. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Jussi M. Hanhimäki M. S. KOHLI and KENNETH CONBOY. Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xi, 226. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. McMahon JOHN PRADOS. Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 380. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Timothy N. Castle PETER H. KOEHN and XIAO-HUANG YIN, eds. The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in US-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xl, 311. $66.95 (US), cloth; $25.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gordon H. Chang JEFFREY S. LANTIS. Strategic Dilemmas and the Evolution of German Foreign Policy since Unification. 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Reviews of Books

Reviews of Books

To those who teach Beowulf, the magnificent glossary in Frederick Klaeber's edition (1950a) is both a blessing and a deeply troubling problem—so troubling that for some it amounts to a disincentive...