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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 BlackGETZEL 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. HoltJOEL 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 MatternROXANNE 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 ReidJOAN 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 BermanRONALD 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 WilliamsNICHOLAS 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, SJKEN 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 WoolfJOANNA 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. McCordR.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. SzaboH. 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. PeersF. 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 WawroAVIEL 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. SmithEDWARD 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. MacKenzieANASTASIOS MYRODIS TAMIS. The Greeks in Australia.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 205. $27.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nina MistilisDAG 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. LovollNICHOLAS 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 ReidPIETER 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 DeákMICHÈLE 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 NeroneDANIEL 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. MayJUDITH 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 EmmerWARWICK 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 BryderSADAO 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. BarnhartJAMES 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-MarshaliLEELA 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 KovenHIROSHI 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. MillerXIAOYUAN 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 HowlandBERNADETTE 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 HarknessMARCUS 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. BiskupskiERIC W. OSBORNE. The Battle of Heligoland Bight.Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 141. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by John BeelerIAN 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 ThomSABRINA 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. HaydenSCOTT 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 MawdsleyCOLIN 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 TrubowitzDAVID EDGERTON. Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 364. $32.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by John R. FerrisGABRIELE 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 SeidmanDAVID 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 FinaldiDAVIDE 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 GrandCHRISTOPHER 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. KupchanHUGH 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 KitchenRAFFAEL 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. GenovaRUTH 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 KasekampPETER EDWARDS. Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins.Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Pp. xii, 339. $49.95 (AUS). Reviewed by David LoweR. 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 LoweSTANLEY 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 TalbotDEREK 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 CitinoMICHAEL 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 GrayPETER 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. GraysonCHRIS 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 ChernusMARK 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. SerewiczLAWRENCE 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. ThorntonGAWDAT 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. AnscombeDALE 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 HillTIM 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 SsenyonjoHERMAN 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 KennedyJEFFREY 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 RussellANDREA 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 ChandlerVIVIEN 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 GillinghamA. 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. BosworthDAVID KENNEDY. Of War and Law.Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 191. $18.95 (US). Reviewed by Colin S. GrayFRED 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. WooleyHAROLD 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 ModelskiJONAS 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. StonecashGEORGE 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-NorrisEVELIN LINDNER. Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict.Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xix, 224. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Diehl |
