Reviews of Books (1999)

Abstract JEREMY BLACK. Maps and Politics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 188. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue PAUL CARTLEDGE, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 380. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley Burstein DEBRA HAMEL. Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. Pp. xvi, 250. NLG 148. Reviewed by W. J. McCoy DAVID F. GRAF. Rome and the Arabian Frontier: From the Nahataeans to the Saracens. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. xviii, 348. $93.95 (US). Reviewed by David Braund WARREN TREADGOLD. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 1,019. $79.50 (US), cloth; $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Haldon CHRISTOPHER A. SNYDER. An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, AD 400–600. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 403. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by P. J. Casey R. H. C. DAVIS and MARJORIE CHIBNALL, ed. and trans. The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers, with English and Latin parallel text. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xlvii, 199. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Stephen Morillo ANGUS MACKAY and DAVID DITCHBURN, eds. Atlas of Medieval Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. ix, 271. $25.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Matthew Innes HUGH THOMAS. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1870. London: Picador, 1997. Pp. 925. £25.00. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan HARRY KELSEY. Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 566. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell JONATHAN I. ISRAEL. Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries, and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585–1713. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 420. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker A. F. UPTON. Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 281. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Douglas Lockhart JOHN K. THORNTON. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatrix Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.95 (US), cloth; $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Wyatt MacGaffey P. J. MARSHALL, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: II: The Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 639. $59.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Burnard ROD EDMOND. Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 307. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jane Samson PADDY GRIFFITH. The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1989–1802. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 304. £20.00; RORY MUIR. Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 342. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn KHALED FAHMY. All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 334. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Avigdor Levy JOHN MILES. Infectious Diseases: Colonising the Pacific? Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1997. Pp. 123. $29.95 (US), paper; SHELDON WATTS. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 400. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by F. B. Smith JOHN A. HALL. A History of the Peninsular War: VIII: The Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808–1814. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 640. £35.00. Reviewed by John K. Severn HENRY SCHWARZ. Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. x, 199. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Martha McLaren RANAJIT GUHA. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 245. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Milton Israel PASCAL JAMES IMPERATO. Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 332. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Youngs JACK GREENE and ALESSANDRO MASSIGNANI. Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854–1891. Conshohocken: Combined Publishing, 1998. Pp. 423. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler ANTJE HAGEN. Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in Groβbritannien, 1871–1918. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 356. DM 148. Reviewed by Paul Kennedy NICHOLAS CONSTANTINESCO. Romania on the European Stage, 1875–1880: The Quest for National Sovereignty and Independence. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1998; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 204. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by David MacKenzie SAMIR SAUL. La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914: Intérêts économiques et implications politiques. Paris: Ministry of Economies, Finance, and Industry, 1997. Pp. xix, 787. Fr. 249. Reviewed by Roger Owen PATRICK SALMON. Scandinavia and the Great Powers, 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 421. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Mikael af Malmborg PETER HASLINGER. Hundert Jahre Nachbarschaft: Die Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und Ungarn, 1895–1994. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xvi, 395. $63.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by George Barany RAJA MENON. Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xvi, 215. $22.50 (US), paper; PHILLIPS PAYSON O'BRIEN. British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900–1936. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 274. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jon Tetsuro Sumida KENNETH D. BROWN. Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History since 1900. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 269. $39.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Ian Nish STEPHANIE PO-YIN CHUNG. Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900–25. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 188. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk JONATHAN M. SOFFER. General Matthew B. Ridgway: From Progressivism to Reaganism, 1895–1993. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 246. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by William Stueck JOHN HORNE, ed. State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 292. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by J. F. V. Keiger GLENN E. TORREY. Romania and World War I: A Collection of Studies. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 392. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen YIGAL SHEFFY. British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914–1918. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xviii, 380. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by David Fromkin ROGER CHICKERING. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 227. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig JERRY W. JONES. US Battleship Operations in World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 170. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by Paul G. Halpern ANDREA CHANDLER. Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1917–1993. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 205. $44.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Sherman W. Garnett RONALD E. POWASKI. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 356. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Norman E. Saul CHRISTINE COLLETTE. The International Faith: Labour's Attitudes to European Socialism, 1918–39. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 211. $55.95 (US). Reviewed by:Pamela M. Graves ALFRED L. CASTLE. Diplomatic Realism: William R. Castle, Jr. and American Foreign Policy, 1919–1953. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 251. $32.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Freeman Smith ROLANDE DEPOORTERE. La question des réparations allemandes dans la politique étrangère de la Belgique après la première guerre mondiale, 2019–1925. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1997. Pp. 440. FrB 1500. Reviewed by Sally Marks AMOS PERLMUTTER. Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 194. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xix, 432. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Allan R, Millett MOGENS PELT. Tobacco, Arms, and Politics: Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1939–41. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1998; dist. Concord: Paul and Company. Pp. 342. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jon V. Kofas ALAN MEGAHEY. Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929–69. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 241. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Carver MICHAEL A. BUTLER. Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 240. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes MICHAEL L. ROI. Alternative to Appeasement: Sir Robert Vansittart and Alliance Diplomacy, 1934–1937. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. x, 198. $57.95 (US). Reviewed by Glyn A. Stone BROCK MILLMAN. The Ill-Made Alliance: Anglo-Turkish Relations, 1934–1940. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 518. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Margaret Lamb JOEL BLATT, ed. The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments. Providence: Berghahn, 1998. Pp. viii, 372. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Samir Saul BRIDGET GOODWIN. Keen as Mustard: Britain's Horrific Chemical Warfare Experiments in Australia. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 361. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Phelps PAUL H. KRATOSKA. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya: A Social and Economic History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 404. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. White ALLISON B. GILMORE. You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 226. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Alan Powell IAN GOODERSON. Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe, 1943–45. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 282. $57.50 (US), cloth; $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robin Higham SHIMON NAVEH. In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xxi, 398. $59.50 (US), cloth; $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid PERRY BIDDISCOMBE. Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944–1946. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 455. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay W. Baird MARK HARRISON, ed. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 307. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg DAVID HANLON. Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944–1982. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 305. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by I. C. Campbell BORIS N. LIEDTKE. Embracing a Dictatorship: US Relations with Spain, 1945–53. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 230. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert H. Whealey T. R. GOURVISH and N. TIRATSOO, eds. Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945–60. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. x, 165. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter J. van Baalen EDWARD NEWMAN. The UN Secretary-General from the Cold War to the New Era: A Global Peace and Security Mandate? New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 239. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Diehl SABRINA P. RAMET. Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 424. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Serhii Plokhy AVNER COHEN. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 470. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by William B. Quandt RAANAN REIN. In the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Inquisition: Israel's Relations with Francoist Spain, trans. Martha Grenzeback. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 278. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Haim Avni DWAYNE A. DAY, JOHN M. LOGSDON, and BRIAN LATELL, eds. Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. xiii,303. $47.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Lewis GILBERT M. JOSEPH, CATHERINE C. LEGRAND, and RICARDO D. SALVATORE, eds. Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US-Latin American Relations. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 575. $19.95 (US), paper; LARS SCHOULTZ. Beneath the United States: A History of US Policy toward Latin America. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 476. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. Randall DONNA RICH KAPLOWITZ. Anatomy of a Failed Embargo: US Sanctions against Cuba. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1998. Pp. x, 247. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Zimbalist MARTHA K. HUGGINS. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 247. $17.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Stephen G. Rabe MARK D. HARMON. The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. x, 272. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Kathleen Burk NICHOLAS VAN HEAR. New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal, and Regrouping of Migrant Communities. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 298. $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Judith M. Brown GARRY RODAN, KEVIN HEWISON, and RICHARD ROBISON, eds. The Political Economy of South-East Asia: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 299. $78.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Linda Lim T. N. SRINIVASAN. Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System: From the GATT to the Uruguay Round and the Future. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. x, 140. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephan Haggard STEPHEN WOOD. Germany, Europe, and the Persistence of Nations: Transformation, Interests, and Identity, 1989–1996. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. ix, 381. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik BASSAM TIBI. The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 262. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by As'ad AbuKhalil CHRISTOPHER COKER. Twilight of the West. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. x, 203. $28.00 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. Milward CYRIL BUFFET and BEATRICE HEUSER, eds. Haunted by History: Myths in International Relations. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1998. Pp. x, 294. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder