Reviews of Books

JONATHAN M. HALL. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xx, $50.00(US). Reviewed by Jeremy McInerey WILLIAM V. HARRIS. Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 468. 849–95 (US). Reviewed by Paul J. Burton DIANA SPENCER. The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 277. £15.99, paper. Reviewed by Erich S. Gruen JAMES ROBERT ENTERLINE. Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America. Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 342. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Agnew PHILIP BENEDICT. Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 670. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles G. Nauert, Jr. DAVID ARMITAGE and MICHAEL J. BRADDICK, eds. The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xx, 324. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Trevor Burnard JAMES D. TRACY. Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 344. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by H. G. Koenigsberger DAGMAR BECHTLOFF. Madagaskar und die Missionare: technisch-zivilisatorische Transfers in der Früh- und Endphase europäischer Expansionsbestrebungen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 258. €45.00. Reviewed by Eva Keller JOHN WATKINS. Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 264. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Kishlansky UWAIDAH M. AL-JUHANY. Najd before the Salafi Reform Movement: Social, Political, and Religious Conditions during the Three Centuries Preceding the Rise of the Saudi State. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. x, 213. 849–50 (US). Reviewed by Hala Fattah LINDSEY HUGHES. Peter the Great: A Biography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 285. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Max J. Okenfuss KATHLEEN WILSON. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xiii, 282. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark EMMA ROTHSCHILD. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 353. $18.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Monika Streissler MUNRO PRICE. The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy. New York: St Martin's Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 425. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Hochedlinger MARK HULLIUNG. Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 250. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Hugh Brogan ALAN FORREST. Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. London and New York: Hambledon & London, 2002; dist. New York: New York University Press. Pp. xix, 248. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Owen Connelly DAVID ALVAREZ. Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. 341. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Frank J. Coppa BRIAN GALLIGAN, WINSOME ROBERTS, and GABRIELLA TRIFILETTI. Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 217. S65.00 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Bolton GISELLE BYRNES. Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2001; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. x, 158. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Judith Bassett MARTINE VAN WOERKENS. The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, trans. Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xv. 360. $24.00 (US), paper Reviewed by Michael H. Fisher JEFFREY COX. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 357. $55.00 (US) Reviewed by Penny Carson CASSANDRA PYBUS and HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART. American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839–1850. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. XV, 270. $34.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Alan Atkinson CHRISTOPHER KOBRAK. National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 394. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephan H. Lindner THOMAS L. WHIGHAM. The Paraguayan War: I: Causes and Early Conduct. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Eduardo Posada-Carbó LARA PUTNAM. The Company They Keep: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 303. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Steven Palmer HOLGER AFFLERBACH. Der Dreibund: Europäische Groβsmacht- und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. Pp. 983. €95.00. Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt FRANK DIKÖTTER. Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China. London: Hurst & Company, 2002. Pp. xvi, 441. £35.00 Reviewed by Pitman B. Potter P. J. CAIN. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance, 1887–1938. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 320. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by E. H. H. Green SHAWN C. SMALLMAN. Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889–1954. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 265. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Peter M. Beattie STEVEN T. ROSS. American War Plans, 1890–1939. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xii, 212. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Edward Miller DENIS JUDD and KEITH SURRIDGE. The Boer War. London: John Murray, 2002. Pp. xvi, 352. £25.00.Reviewed by Bill Nasson ROBERT T. FOLEY, trans, and ed. Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xxix, 280. $54.50 (US); ROBERT M. CITINO. Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899–1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xix, 372. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan ANDRE SCHMID. Korea between Empires, 1895–1919. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 372. $22.50 (US), paper; MICHAEL FINCH. Min Yóng-Hwan: A Political Biography. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Center for Korean Studies, 2002. Pp. xii, 256. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Soon-Won Park V. R. RAUSCH and D. L. BALDWIN, eds. The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen, original journal trans, by James P. Nelson. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 261. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jonathan Swainger DAVID GOLDSWORTHY, ed. Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia: I: 1901 to the 1970s. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 523. $39.95 (AUS), paper Reviewed by David Day LESLIE MCLOUGHLIN. In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2002. Pp. x, 288. £29.95. Reviewed by Derek Hopwood CHRISTOPHER P. ATWOOD. Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911–1931: I. Pp. xxii, 499; II. Pp. 503-I,168. Leiden: Brill, 2002. €150.00 for both volumes. Reviewed by Bruce A. Elleman MICHAEL HOWARD. The First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 154. S31.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay Winter EDWARD B. WESTERMANN. Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xiv, 394. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth P. Werrell LAURENT MARTIN. Le Canard enchainé ou les Fortunes de la vertu: Histoire d'un journal satirique 1915–2000. Paris: Flammarion, 2001. Pp. 726. €22.71; ALLEN DOUGLAS. War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchainé and World War I. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 331. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré CHRISTOPHER READ. The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 259. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Edwin Bacon JOANNE MOONEY EICHACKER. Irish Republican Women in America: Lecture Tours, 1916–1925. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 329. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson LLOYD E. AMBROSIUS. Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 233. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. Fry YUNG-CHEN CHIANG. Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919–1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 299. &59.95 (US). Reviewed by Bettina Gransow JONATHAN WRIGHT. Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 569. $79.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Henry A. Turner, Jr. HAROLD JAMES, ed., in collaboration with ELISABETH MÜLLER-LUCKNER. The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. Pp. xv, 192. €44.80; RANDALL E. PARKER. Reflections on the Great Depression. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. Pp. xii, 230. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher M. Meissner KLAUS DODDS. Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002; dist. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. Pp. xxiii, 229. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Calvert PATRICK J. HEARDEN. Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II.Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 418. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler DOUGLAS C. PEIFER. The Three German Navies: Dissolution, Transition, and New Beginnings, 1945–1960. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xx, 250. $90.75 (CDN).Reviewed by Sigurd Hess R. J. CRAMPTON. The Balkans since the Second World War. London and New York: Longman, 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 374. £16.99, paper. Reviewed by John R. Lampe LOUISE OLSSON and TORUNN L. TRYGGESTAD, eds. Women and International Peacekeeping. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. 145. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frances Early KENNETH CONBOY and JAMES MORRISON. The CIA's Secret War in Tibet. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. x, 301. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Scott Lucas GREG DONAGHY, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: XXIII: 1956–1957, Part II. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 2002. Pp. lxii, 1,578. $119.95 (CDN). Reviewed by B. W. Muirhead NETA C. CRAWFORD. Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 466. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen A. Garrett DAVID L. ANDERSON. The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 308. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark Bradley HENNER FURTIG. Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia between the Gulf Wars. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 288. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson ANNA M. GRZYMALA-BUSSE. Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 341. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by David M. Olson MORRIS MORLEY and CHRIS MCGILLION. Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989–2001. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 253. $18.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joaquin Roy MICHAEL BRENNER and GUILLAUME PARMENTIER. Reconcilable Differences: US-French Relations in the New Era. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2002. Pp. x, 154. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Chiarella Esposito ROBERT K. BARNEY, STEPHEN R. WENN, and SCOTT G. MARTYN. Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Books Services. Pp. xvi, 384. $57.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Wray Vamplew DONLEY T. STUDLAR. Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002. Pp. 327. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Kyle EDWARD J. CHAMBERS and PETER H. SMITH, eds. NAFTA in the New Millennium. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press; and La Jolla: Center for US-Mexican Studies, 2002. Pp. xv, 504. $34.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes JOHN LEECH. Asymmetries of Conflict: War without Death. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xix, 220. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Christopher Coker ELISABETH GLASER and HERMANN WELLENREUTHER, eds. Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press; Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2002. Pp. ix, 310. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Bergmann PATRICK JAMES. International Relations and Scientific Progress: Structural Realism Reconsidered. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 299. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian C. Schmidt JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. Pp. xvi, 555. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Charles A. Kupchan

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