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SETH SCHWARTZ. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi,320. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by J. B. RivesMICHAEL ADAS, ed., for the American Historical Association. Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History.Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 363. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Karl EvansPATRICKJ. GEARY. The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 199. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Roger CollinsPAUL STEPHENSON. Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900–1204.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 352. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Lenos MavrommatisDAVID LEVINE. At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 431. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. HoffmannYVONNE FRIEDMAN. Encounter between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xiii, 295. €110.00. Reviewed by James A. BrundageJOS GOMMANS and JACQUES LEIDER, eds. The Maritime Frontier of Burma: Exploring Political, Cultural, and Commercial Interaction in the Indian Ocean World, 1200–1800.Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2002. Pp. xii, 248. €34.00, paper. Reviewed by Anthony DisneyMALCOLM VALE. The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe, 1270–1380.New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 422. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Julian GardnerPHILIP JACKS and WILLIAM CAFERRO. The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family.University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 418. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by John H. MunroMARK CHARLES FISSEL. English Warfare, 1511–1642.London and New York: Routledge,2001. Pp. xviii, 382. $25.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Charles CarltonPAULA SUTTER FICHTNER. Emperor Maximilian II.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 344. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles IngraoBENJAMIN SCHMIDT. Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxix, 450. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Christine KooiGRAHAM DARBY, ed. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt.London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xxi, 175. $15.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. J. Rodriguez-SalgadoKENNETH MORGAN. Slavery, Atlantic Trade, and the British Economy, 1660–1800.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 120. $39.95 (US), cloth; $11.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph E. InikoriDOUDOU DIÈNE, ed. From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited.New York: Berghahn, 2001; and Paris: UNESCO Publishing. Pp. xxvi, 470. $79.95 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen D. BehrendtDAVID PARROTT. Richelieu's Army: War, Government, and Society in France, 1624– 1642.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 599. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by Orest RanumIAN F. W. BECKETT. Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and Their Opponents since 1750.London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. ix, 268. $16.99 (US): paper. Reviewed by Bernard NorlingJEREMY BLACK. Western Warfare, 1775–1882.Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 210. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David GatesDAVID M. PLETCHER. The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion across the Pacific, 1784–1900.Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xi, 379. $74.25 (US). Reviewed by Edward P. CrapolVIRGINIA MARTIN. Law and Custom in the Steppe: The Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century.Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 244. £40.00. Reviewed by Willard SunderlandGABRIELE CLEMENS, ed. Nation und Europa: Studien zum internationalen Staatensystem im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift fur Peter Krüger zum 65 Geburtstag.Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 350. €61.00. Reviewed by Brendan SimmsSABINE FREITAG and PETER WENDE, eds. British Envoys to Germany, 1816–1866:I: 1816–1829.New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society in Association with the German Historical Institute, London, 2001. Pp. xxi, 592. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by John ClarkePARIMAL GHOSH. Brave Men of the Hills: Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825– 1932.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. 197. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Sekhar BandyopadhyayJ. H. WALKER. Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak.Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2002; dist. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. xx, 300. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas TarlingEILEEN P. SCULLY. Bargaining with the State from Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844–1942.New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 306. $19.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by James L. HeviaPAUL LAITY. The British Peace Movement, 1870–1914.New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 270. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter BrockLEO T. S. CHING. Becoming ‘Japanese’: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 251. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul BarclayLORA WILDENTHAL. German Women for Empire, 1884–1945.Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xi,336. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Woodruff D. SmithWILLIAM F. NIMMO. Stars and Stripes across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and the Asia/Pacific Region, 1895–1945.Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. x, 289. $65.95 (US); WARREN I. COHEN. The Asian American Century.Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 150. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael SchallerDAVID OMISSI and ANDREW S. THOMPSON, eds. The Impact of the South African War.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xvi, 313. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian F. W. BeckettWILLIAM B. MCALLISTER. Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: An International History.London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xvii, 344. $24.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anne L. FosterSTEVE STRIFFLER. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995.Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 242. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul J. DosalMARK R. PEATTIE. Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909–1941.Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 364. $36.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. BarnhartBEN NOVICK. Conceiving Revolution: Irish Nationalist Propaganda during the First World War.Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. 272. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David HarknessJOHN HORNE and ALAN KRAMER. German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 608. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. HerwigJOHN MILTON COOPER, Jr. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 454. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd E. AmbrosiusMARLENE J. MAYO, J. THOMAS RIMER, with H. ELEANOR KERKHAM, eds. War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920–1960.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 405. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ralph CroizierHAROLD JAMES. The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression.Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 260. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by James M. BoughtonPETER J ACKSON. France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making, 1933– 1939.New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 446. $139.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Joseph A. MaioloMICHAEL THAD ALLEN. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 377. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Geoffrey P. MegargeeGERD HORTEN. Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 218. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Todd BennettGERWIN STROBL. The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 274. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman J. W. GodaJOZO TOMASEVICH. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1914–1945: Occupation and Collaboration.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 842. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Richard CramptonDMITRIY LOZA. Attack of the Airacobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War against Germany,trans, and ed. James F. Gebhardt. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xiii, 369. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Adam ClaasenKENT FEDOROWICH and MARTIN THOMAS, eds. International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. 260. £35.00. Reviewed by John FlintWYATT WELLS. Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 276. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. EckesWOLFGANG-UWE FRIEDRICH, ed. Germany and America: Essays in Honor of Gerald R. Kleinfeld.New York: Berghahn, 2001. Pp. xi, 324. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Manfred JonasDALE M. HELLEGERS. We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution:I: Washington.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 404; DALE M. HELLEGERS. We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution:II: Tokyo.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 405–826. $99.00 (US) for both vols. Reviewed by Janice MatsumuraBEVERLEY MILTON-EDWARDS and PETER HINCHCLIFFE. Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945.London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiii, 130. $47.95 (US), cloth; $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Tore Tingvold PetersenJENNIFER G. MATHERS. The Russian Nuclear Shield from Stalin to Yeltsin: The Cold War and Beyond.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. ix, 227. $59.95 (US); STEPHEN F. COHEN. Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia.New York: W. W. Norton &Company, 2000. Pp. xiv, 304. $21.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark WebberSHIBLEY TELHAMI and MICHAEL BARNETT, eds. Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 207. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Malcolm ReidRICHARD MOORE. The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xv, 243. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Andrew LambertMATTHEW M. AID and CEES WIEBES, eds. Secrets of Signals Intelligence during the Cold War and Beyond.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. 350. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Olav RisteGEROLD KROZEWSKI. Money and the End of Empire: British International Economic Policy and the Colonies, 1947–58.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 311. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. SchenkRAMAKRISHNA KUMAR. Emergency Propaganda: The Winning of Malayan Hearts and Minds, 1948–1958.Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 306. £45.00. Reviewed by Nicholas TarlingTHOMAS BORSTELMANN. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena.Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 369. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Penny M. Von EschenROGER HOLDICH, VIVIANNE JOHNSON, and PAMELA ANDRE, eds. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: The ANZUS Treaty, 1951.Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, 2001. Pp. xxxv, 263. $54.95 (AUS), cloth; $32.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by David McLeanJAMES ELLISON. Threatening Europe: Britain and the Creation of the European Community, 1955–58.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii,3io. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin J. DedmanMATTHEW JONES. Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia, and the Creation of Malaysia.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 325. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. YoungSAHADEO BASDEO and GRAEME MOUNT. The Foreign Relations of Trinidad and Tobago (1962–2000): The Case of a Small State in the Global Arena.San Juan, Trinidad: Lexicon Trinidad, 2001. Pp. xiv, 274. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Cary FraserPRISCILLA ROBERTS, ed. Window on the Forbidden City: The Beijing Diaries of David Bruce, 1973–1974.Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2001. Pp. 653. HK$220.oo, paper. Reviewed by Bryce HarlandC. DALE WALTON. The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xvi, 176. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Andrew PrestonPETER GOLD. Europe or Africa? A Contemporary Study of the Spanish North African Enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,2000; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. xv, 192. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Ana I. PlanetTHOMAS G. MOORE. China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 344. $65.00 (US), cloth; $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by S. A. M. AdsheadNELSON MICHAUD and KIM RICHARD NOSSAL, eds. Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984–93.Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 326. $85.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Francine McKenzieLESLIE FRIEDMAN GOLDSTEIN. Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 242. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter LeslieTHE RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF. The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost,trans, and ed. Lester W. Grau and Michael A. Gress. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 364. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Odd Arne WestadPADRAIC KENNEY. A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 431. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. KulczyckiABBY INNES. Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 334. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Victor M. FicHERBERT S. YEE. Macau in Transition: From Colony to Autonomous Region.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 208. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey C. GunnMUSHIRUL HASAN and NARIAKI NAKAZATO, eds. The Unfinished Agenda: Nation-Building in South Asia.New Delhi: Manohar, 2001. Pp. 536. Rs 800. Reviewed by Anita Inder SinghMICHAEL BARNETT. Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 215. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Arthur Jay KlinghofferFRED HALLIDAY. The World at 2000: Perils and Promises.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii, 170. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John G. DarwinCHARLOTTE HOOPER. Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics.New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 297. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lily H. M. LingROBERT H. WIEBE. Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism.Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 282. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by John BreuillyJOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN. War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 523. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Sandi E. CooperRICHARD SAULL. Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War: The State, Military Power, and Social Revolution.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xvi, 238. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert JervisJOHN A. VASQUEZ, ed. What Do We Know about War?Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp. xvii, 420. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Randall SchwellerTHOMAS A. BRESLIN. Beyond Pain: The Role of Pleasure and Culture in the Making of Foreign Affairs.Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. x, 203. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Akira Iriye