Reviews of Books

BRUCE G. TRIGGER. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 757. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert McC. Adams JOHN A. LYNN. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture. Boulder: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 399. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan RICHARD A. GABRIEL. The Great Armies of Antiquity. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxi, 430. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by R. M. Sheldon K. R. HOWE. The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? Auckland and London: Penguin, 2003. Pp. 235. $29.95 (NZ), paper. Reviewed by Hugh Laracy ALAN K. BOWMAN, HANNAH M. COTTON, MARTIN GOODMAN, and SIMON PRICE, eds. Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002; published for The British Academy. Pp. xi, 196. $69.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein HUGH M. THOMAS. The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity, 1066–C.1220. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 462. $195.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Marjorie Chibnall JOHN V. TOLAN. Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 372. $22.50 (US), paper; JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 322. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Roger Collins FRANCESC RELAÑO. The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographie Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. x, 271. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto ROGER FRENCH. Medicine before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. v, 289. $60.00 (US), cloth; $23.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Norris GLENN BURGER, LESLEY B. CORMACK, JONATHAN HART, and NATALIA PYLYPIUK, eds. Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003. Pp. xxxv, 284. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue BARBARA GANSON. The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 290. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder ALAN GALLAY. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 444. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John M. Murrin COLIN JONES and DROR WAHRMAN, eds. The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750–1820. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 293. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Simon Burrows MARGARETTE LINCOLN. Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750–1815. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiii, 226. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Webb EDWARD DUYKER. Citizen LabiUardière: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834). Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2003. Pp. xx, 383. $69.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Donald Denoon DANILYN RUTHERFORD. Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 296. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James J. Fox DONALD KEENE. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 922. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by James L. Huffman TERENCE ZUBER. Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871–1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Elizabeth Greenhalgh FRANZ ADLGASSER, ed. Die Aehrenthals: Eine Familie in ihrer Korrespondenz 1872– 1911, 2 vols. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. Pp. 1,015. €159.00. Reviewed by Lothar Höblet ERIKA LEE. At America's Gate: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. 331. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Madeline Y. Hsu CHRISTAUD M. GEARY, with an essay by Krzysztof Pluskota. In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885–1960. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2002; dist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 128. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Phyllis M. Martin PAUL R. BRUMPTON. Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 245. $64.95 (US); JENNIFER SIEGEL. Endgame: Britain, Russia, and the Final Struggle for Central Asia. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002; dist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 273. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Sneh Mahajan MADELEINE HERREN and SACHA ZALA. Netzwerk Aussenpolitik: Internationale Kongresse und Organisational als Instrumente der schweizerischen Aussenpolitik, 1914– 1950. Zürich: Chronos, 2002. Pp. 314. €25.90, paper. Reviewed by Laurent Goetschel ANDREW GREEN. Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915–1948. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xv, 239. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Brian Bond GLENN WATKINS. Proof through the Night: Music and the Great War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 598. $49.95 (US) (with CD). Reviewed by Jay Winter P. G. A. ORDERS. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the Challenge of the United States, 1939–46: A Study in International History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. vii, 262. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by David Day CHRISTOF MAUCH. The Shadow War against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service, trans. Jeremiah M. Riemer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 333. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Raymond Millen ATHANASIOS LYKOGIANNIS. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944–1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 287. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Philip Carabott ALAN E. STEINWEIS and DANIEL E. ROGERS, eds. The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 260. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. TERRY COPP. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy: The 1998 Joanne Goodman Lectures. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 344. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Desmond Morton BRENDA GAYLE PLUMMER, ed. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 259. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich HUGH WILFORD. The CIA, the British Left, and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvi, 328. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. Cull DEBRA J. ALLEN. The Oder-Neisse Line: The United States, Poland, and Germany in the Cold War. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 309. $67.95 (US). Reviewed by Sabine Lee NIGEL GROOM. Sheba Revealed: A Posting to Bayhan in the Yemen. London: London Centre of Arab Studies, 2002; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. xv, 296. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Sheila Carapico ROBERT MCNAMARA. Britain, Nasser, and the Balance of Power in the Middle East, 1952–1967: From the Egyptian Revolution to the Six Day War. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 308. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Ritchie Ovendale ILYA V. GAIDUK. Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 19544–1963. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 286. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Share PAMELA BALLINGER. History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 328. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Cathie Carmichael JAMES VOORHEES. Dialogue Sustained: The Multilevel Peace Process and the Dartmouth Conference. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press and die Charles F. Kettering Foundation, 2002. Pp. xvii, 470. $24.95 (US), paper; MATTHEW J. OUIMET. The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 309. $90.75 (CDN), clodi; $49.50 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Robert D. English SHELDON M. STERN. Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 459. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow PATRICIA M. PELLEY. Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 326. $19.95 (US), paper; PHILIP E. CATTON. Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. x, 298. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark W. McLeod DENISE LEITH. The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 347. $23.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Howard Dick THOMAS GRAHAM, JR. and DAMIEN J. LAVERA. Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press; Washington, DC: Nuclear Threat Initiative, 2003. Pp. xvi, 1,487. $125.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Krepon PETER URMETZER. From Free Trade to Forced Trade: Canada in the Global Economy. Toronto: Penguin; Montreal: McGill Institute, 2003. Pp. 248. $22.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Doug Owram MARJORIE GRIFFIN COHEN and STEPHEN MCBRIDE, eds. Global Turbulence: Social Activists' and State Responses to Globalization. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii, 196. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter J. Smith EDWARD KEENE. Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism, and Order in World Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 165. $21.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Hendrik Spruyt GEORGE P. FLETCHER. Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 251. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter Karsten DAVID C. ENGERMAN, NILS GILMAN, MARK H. HAEFELE, and MICHAEL E. LATHAM, eds. Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War. Araherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 283. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bradley R. Simpson JOSEPH S. NYE, Jr. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 222. $19.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by David Mayers DAVID SHAMBAUGH. Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 374. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Qiang Zhai ANDREW J. BACEVICH and EFRAIM INBAR, eds. The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xii, 186. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Sluglett PAUL K. HUTH and TODD L. ALLEE. The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 488. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Lee Ray HERBERT HIRSCH. Anti-Genocide: Building an American Movement to Prevent Genocide. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xvi, 213. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Arthur Jay Klinghoffer JAMES A. NATHAN. Soldiers, Statecraft, and History: Coercive Diplomacy and International Order. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 188. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Kent MICHAEL WYRSH. At War with Ourselves: Why America is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 288. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen M. Walt ROBBIE ROBERTSON. The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness. London: Zed Books, 2003; dist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 291. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. June Flanders ZEEV MAOZ and BEN D. MOR. Bound by Struggle: The Strategic Evolution of Enduring International Rivalries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. x, 356. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by William R. Thompson CHARLES A. KUPCHAN. The End of the American Era: US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002; dist. Toronto: Random House of Canada. Pp. xviii, 391. $41.95 (CDN); BRUNO TERTRAIS. La guerre sans fin: L'Amérique dans l'engrenage. Paris: Seuil, 2004. Pp. 96. €10.50, paper. Reviewed by Immanuel Wallerstein

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