Reviews of Books

Nicola Di Cosmo. Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 369. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter B. GoldenThomas F. Madden. Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 298. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael AngoldJohn Rennie Short. Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475–1600.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 185. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by David BuisseretDiarmaid Macculloch. Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490–1700.London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 831. $52.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Penny RobertsHenry Kamen. The Duke of Alba.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 204. $30.00 (US); Ricardo Padron. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 287. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles J. JagoBrennan C. Pursell. The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Tears' War.Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xv, 320. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Toby OsborneEmmajinhua Teng. Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 370. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by John W. DardessSonia P. Anderson, ed. Report on the Manuscripts of the Late Allan George Finch Esq., of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland: V: General Correspondence 1693, Secret Service Papers, 1691–1693, and Naval and Military Papers to 1694.London: The Stationery Office, 2004. Pp. clix, 916. £130.00. Reviewed by N. A. M. RodgerDavid Schimmelpenninckvan Der Oye and Bruce W. Menning, eds. Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution.Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 361. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John BushnellLydia T. Black. Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867.Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 328. $65.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Abraham AscherRandy J. Sparks. The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey.Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 189. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. AustenRobert W. Smith. Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy.DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 196. $38.50 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence S. KaplanBarbara J. Messamore, ed. Canadian Migration Patterns: From Britain and North America.Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. viii, 294. $24.95 (CDN)> paper. Reviewed by Alan G. BrungerJean Debernardi. Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 318. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert W. HefnerRoy Porter and David Wright, eds. The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800–1965.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 371. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Joseph MellingCharles J. Esdaile. Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits, and Adventurers in Spain, 1808–1814.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 272. $40.00 (US); Alexander Grab. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xiii, 249. $22.95 (US). paper. Reviewed by Michael BroersMartin S. Staum. Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815–1848.Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 245- $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence C.JenningsRobert H. Holden. Armies without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821–1960.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 336. $95.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Timothy E. AnnaJ. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-93.Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 525. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Sarah PalmerRifā'a Rāfi' Al-Tahtāwī. An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) (Takhlīs al-Ibrīzfī Talkhīs Bārīz aw al-Dīwān al-Nafīs bi-īwān Bārīs),intro. and trans. Daniel L. Newman. London: Saqi Books, 2004. Pp. 405. £24.99. Reviewed by Donald Malcolm ReidEdward M. Spiers. The Victorian Soldier in Africa.Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xii, 212. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert L. TignorMarshall J. Bastable. Arms and the State: Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854–1914.Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xii, 300. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by John BeelerCharles M. Good,Jr. The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 487. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Roy MacleodKonrad Canis. Bismarcks Aufienpolitik 1870–1890.Aufstieg und Gefährdung. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004. Pp. viii, 449. €39.80. Reviewed by Lothar HöbeltCarole Fink. Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1838.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 420. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark LeveneAndrew R. Wilson. Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880–1816.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 304. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas TarlingG. R. Searle. A New England? Peace and War, 1886–1918.New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 951. $85.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Matthew CragoeLu Yan. Re-Understanding Japan: Chinese Perspectives, 1895–1945.Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 339. $50.00 (US); Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh, eds. In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 392. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas R. ReynoldsC. G. McKay and Bengt Beckman. Swedish Signal Intelligence, 1900–1945.London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 310. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by John R. FerrisRobert J. Young. Marketing Marianne: French Propaganda in America, 1900–1941.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 247. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Anthony AdamthwaiteAllen J. Frantzen. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 335. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John H. Morrow,Jr.Gordon Williams. British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation.London and New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. viii, 357. $195.00 (US). Reviewed by Craig GibsonMichael Cassella-Blackburn. The Donkey, the Carrot, and the Club: William C. Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1948.Westport: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xiv, 287. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by David S. FoglesongMervyn O'Driscoll. Ireland, Germany, and the Nazis: Politics and Diplomacy, 19149–1939.Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 304. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul CanningJulio Moreno. Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950.Chapel Hill and London: University of Nordi Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 321. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William H. BeezleyXiaoyuan Liu. Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921–1945.Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 240. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Odoric Y. K. WouLarry R. Gerlach, ed. The Winter Olympics: From Chamonix to Salt Lake City.Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 330. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by John E. FindlingRodney Koeneke. Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929–1979.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 256. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Federico MasiniTatjana Tonsmeyer. Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei, 1939–1945: Politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn.Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 387. €48.00. Reviewed by Stanislav J. KirschbaumShlomo Aronson. Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 382. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by David EngelLe Manh Hung. The Impact of World War II on the Economy of Vietnam, 1939-45.Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2004; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. v, 304. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Philip E. CattonJeremy Black. World War Two: A Military History.London and New York: Roudedge, 2003. Pp. xvi, 299. $19.95 (US). paper. Reviewed by Keith NeilsonJeffrey A. Keshen. Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War.Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. x, 389. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by N. F. DreiszigerPaul A. C. Koistinen. Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xiii, 657– $49-95 (US). Reviewed by Allan R. MillettBarbara Brooks Tomblin. With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945.Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 578. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Douglas PorchÁngel Viñas. En Las Garras del Águila: Los pactos con Estados Unidos, de Francisco Franco a Felipe González (1945–1995).Barcelona: Critica, 2003. Pp. 619. €28.00. Reviewed by Robert H. WhealeyGerd-Rainer Horn and Padraic Kenney, eds. Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945,1968,1989.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Litdefield, 2004. Pp. xix, 243. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Bruce MorrisonPeter L. Hahn. Caught in the Middle East: US Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1946–1961.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 398. $74.25 (CDN); David Tal. War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy.London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. viii, 498. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Benny MorrisNils Gilman. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 329. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by Ron RobinAlfred C. Mierzejewski. Ludwig Erhard: A Biography.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xv, 278. $82.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Diethelm ProweAlexander Trapeznik and Aaron Fox, eds. Lenin's Legacy Down Under: New Zealand's Cold War.Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 247. $39.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ian McGibbonDavid Caute. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 788. $63.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Richard TaylorGreg Grandin. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 311. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Joseph SmithMark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne, eds. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 360. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Ali M. AnsariSalim Yaqub. Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. x, 377. $37.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by David S. PainterFrancis J. Gavin. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 263. $74.25 (CDN). Reviewed by Thomas W. ZeilerKatsumi Ishizuka. Ireland and International Peacekeeping Operations, 1960–2000: A Study of Irish Motivation.London and New York: Frank Cass, 2004. Pp. xiv, 234. $79.95 (US). Reviewed by Sean MaloneyMorris Rossabi, ed. Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers.Seatde and London: University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 296. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Don McMillenJeremy Vabon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 394. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Arthur MarwickPatricia A. Weitsman. Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 244. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas OnufThomas J. Bassett and Donald Crummey, eds. African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change.Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvii, 270. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Larry A. SwatukK. J. Holsti. Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 349. $70.00 (US), cloth; $26.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert Jervis