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G. E. R. LLOYD. The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 175. $22.00 (US), paper; GEOFFREY LLOYD and NATHAN SIVIN. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 348. $35.00 (US); $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul S. CartledgeFRANÇOIS CHAMOUX. Hellenistic Civilization, trans. Michel Roussel (in cooperation with Margaret Roussel). Oxford and Maiden: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xii, 452. $67.95 (US). Reviewed by Daniel OgdenRAYMOND VAN DAM. Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. viii, 290. $82.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Arthur M. EcksteinCYRIL MANGO, ed. The Oxford History of Byzantium.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 334. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Sebastian BrockROBERT MORRISSEY. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology, trans. Catherine Tihanyi. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 391. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by H. E. J. CowdreyMALCOLM BARBER and KEITH BATE, eds. The Templars: Selected Sources Translated and Edited.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xiv, 350. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John FranceIAN ROBERTSON. Tyranny under the Mande of St Peter: Pope Paul II and Bologna.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002. Pp. x. 245. €55.00. Reviewed by David NicholasGÁBOR KLANICZAY. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe,trans. Éva Pálmai. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 490. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Diana WebbFlNN-ElNAR ELIASSEN, JØRGEN MlKKELSEN, and BJØRN POULSEN, eds. Regional Integration in Early Modern Scandinavia.Odense: Odense University Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 287. $37.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul Douglas LockhartTHOMAS JAMES DANDELET. Spanish Rome, 1500–1700.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 278. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Maria Antonietta ViscegliaANTHONY LEVI. Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 483. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. KnollTHOMAS B. F. CUMMINS. Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 377. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Rebecca Stone-MillerJANET M. HARTLEY. Charles Whitworth: Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great.Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xvi, 242. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by John T. AlexanderOWEN CONNELLY. On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 347. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. ShowalterEDMUND S. MORGAN. Benjamin Franklin.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 339. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence S. KaplanANDREAS FAHRMEIR, OLIVIER FARON, and PATRICK WEIL, eds. Migration Control in the North Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period.New York: Berghahn, 2003. Pp. xiii, 322. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Harman AkensonPAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI. The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 214. $50.00 (CDN). Reviewed by George O. LiberJEREMY KING. Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848–1948.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 284. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Gary B. CohenSUSAN J. FERNANDEZ. Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878–1895.Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 203. $92.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Franklin W. KnightSHIRLEY ARDENER, ed. with commentaries. Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883–1923: Trade and Travel, People and Politics: The Memoir of Knut Knutson, with Supporting Material.New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. xv, 288. $79.95 (US), cloth; $29.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John FlintJ. L. GRANATSTEIN. Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 519. $50.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ken ReynoldsPETER MANGOLD. Success and Failure in British Foreign Policy: Evaluating the Record, 1900–2000.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. Pp. viii, 243. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John CharmleyCLEMENT M. HENRY and ROBERT SPRTNGBORG. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 258. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger OwenPETER HOLQUIST. Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914–1921.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 359. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Terence EmmonsNORMAN RICH. Great Power Diplomacy: Since 1914.New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 565. $42.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Margaret LambAVIEL ROSHWALD. Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, 1914–1923.London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. x. 273. $27.95 (US), paper; ACHIM MÜLLER. Zwischen Annäherung und Abgrenzung. Österreich-Ungarn und die Diskussion urn Mitteleuropa im Ersten Weltkrieg.Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2001. Pp. 412. €25.90. Reviewed by Lothar HöbeltJOHN GRIGG. Lloyd George: War Leader, 1916–1918.London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 669. $55.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Sidney AsterMICHAEL HOPKINSON. The Irish War of Independence.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 274. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by David HarknessBERTRAND M. PATENAUDE. The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 817. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Betty Miller UnterbergerSTEPHANIE BURROWS. Tucholsky and France.Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. x, 269. $78.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Talbot ImlayELEANOR M. HADLEY with PATRICIA HAGAN KUWAYAMA. Memoir of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 175. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Laura HeinDARLENE RIVAS. Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 290. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by William O. Walker IIIGERD R. UEBERSCHÄR, ed. Der deutsche Widerstand gegen Hitler: Wahmehmung und Wertung in Europa und den USA.Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002. Pp. 300. €49.90. Reviewed by Andreas FahrmeirRONALD W. ZWEIG. The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Second World War's Most Terrible Robbery.London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 311. £20.00. Reviewed by Norman J. W. GodaDAVID M. GLANTZ. The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 660. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Catherine AndreyevANTONIO VARSORI and ELENA CALANDRI, eds. The Failure of Peace in Europe, 1943–48.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xii, 342. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Leopoldo NutiEMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 411. $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Karl F. FridayWILLIAM HENRY POPE, MC. Leading from the Front: The War Memoirs of Harry Pope.Waterloo: The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 248. $24.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond MortonT. FUJITANI, GEOFFREY M. WHITE, and LISA YONEYAMA, eds. Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s).Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 462. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey G. BarlowROGER BUCKLEY. The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 258. $65.00 (US), cloth; $23.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Akira IriyeJ. N. DIXIT. India-Pakistan in War and Peace.London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 501. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Sumit GangulyJON V. KOFAS. The Sword of Damocles: US Financial Hegemony in Colombia and Chile, 1950–1970.Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xix, 238. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. DrakeWILLIAM STUECK. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 285. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by James I. MatrayBRENT BYRON WATSON. Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 238. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Steven Hugh LeeJOHN A. NAGL. Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife.Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxi, 249. $67.95 (US). Reviewed by Philip E. CattonBRUNA BAGNATO, ed. I Diari di Luca Pietromarchi: Ambasciatore Italiano a Mosca (1958–1961).Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. Pp. 1,446. €49.00, paper. Reviewed by Mario Del PeroNORRIE MACQUEEN. United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa since 1960.London and New York: Longman, 2002. Pp. xiii, 308. £19.99, paper. Reviewed by David BirminghamWILLIAM MALEY. The Afghanistan Wars.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. ix, 340. $65.00 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Ludwig W. AdamecAMY BASS. Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 438. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey S. SmithJOSEPH T. STANIK. El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi.Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 319. $34.95 (US); OFIRA SELIKTAR. Failing the Crystal Ball Test: The Carter Administration and the Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran.Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xxi, 245. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Bruce R. KuniholmWALLACE J. THIES. Friendly Rivals: Bargaining and Burden-Shifting in NATO.Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. Pp. xvi, 350. $72.95 (US), cloth; $28.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stanley R. SloanSTEPHEN CLARKSON. Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State.Toronto: University of Toronto Press; Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 534. $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by B. W. MuirheadKURT WEYLAND. The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 335. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Jeremy AdelmanKARI LEVITT. Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002, new ed. Pp. xlvii, 193. $24.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Steven GlobermanMICHAEL D. KENNEDY. Cultural Formations of Post-Communism: Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 369, $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Andrew C. JanosHUBERT TWORZECKI. Learning to Choose: Electoral Politics in East-Central Europe.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 290. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Ray TarasWILL KYMLICKA and MAGDA OPALSKI, eds. Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe.New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; repr., 2002. Pp. xvii, 439. $152.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Andrew C. JanosBULENT ARAS. The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. viii, 110. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen BlankOWEN BENNETT JONES. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 328. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Ayesha JalalRANDALL HANSEN and PATRICK WEIL, eds. Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the US and Europe: The Reinvention of Citizenship.New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. ix, 341. $75.00 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John TorpeyANDREW J. BACEVICH and ELIOT A. COHEN, eds. War over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 223. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Christopher LayneARTHUR JAY KLINGHOFFER and JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER. International Citizens' Tribunals: Mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. x, 256. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by J. G. MerrillsPAUL G. HARRIS, ed. The Environment, International Relations, and US Foreign Policy.Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. ix, 276. $41.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Paul F. DiehlSUSAN ARIEL AARONSON. Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 264. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jane RelseyRICHARD SANDELL, ed. Museums, Society, Inequality.London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xx, 268. $28.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gordon FyfeKAREN PIPER. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 220. $23.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman EtheringtonCOLIN S. GRAY. Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xvi, 310. $52.50 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey BlatneyFIONA TERRY. Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 282. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen A. GarrettBERTRAND M. ROEHNER and TONY SYME. Pattern and Repertoire in History.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 413. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by William R. Thompson |