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JEREMY BLACK. Maps and Politics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 188. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue
PAUL CARTLEDGE, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 380. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley Burstein
DEBRA HAMEL. Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. Pp. xvi, 250. NLG 148. Reviewed by W. J. McCoy
DAVID F. GRAF. Rome and the Arabian Frontier: From the Nahataeans to the Saracens. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. xviii, 348. $93.95 (US). Reviewed by David Braund
WARREN TREADGOLD. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 1,019. $79.50 (US), cloth; $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Haldon
CHRISTOPHER A. SNYDER. An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, AD 400-600. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 403. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by P. J. Casey
R. H. C. DAVIS and MARJORIE CHIBNALL, ed. and trans. The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers, with English and Latin parallel text. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xlvii, 199. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Stephen Morillo
ANGUS MACKAY and DAVID DITCHBURN, eds. Atlas of Medieval Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. ix, 271. $25.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Matthew Innes
HUGH THOMAS. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. London: Picador, 1997. Pp. 925. £25.00. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan
HARRY KELSEY. Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 566. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell
JONATHAN I. ISRAEL. Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries, and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585-1713. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 420. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Parker
A. F. UPTON. Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 281. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Douglas Lockhart
JOHN K. THORNTON. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatrix Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.95 (US), cloth; $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Wyatt MacGaffey
P. J. MARSHALL, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: II: The Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 639. $59.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Burnard
ROD EDMOND. Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 307. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jane Samson
PADDY GRIFFITH. The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1989-1802. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 304. £20.00; RORY MUIR. Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 342. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn
KHALED FAHMY. All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 334. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Avigdor Levy
JOHN MILES. Infectious Diseases: Colonising the Pacific? Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1997. Pp. 123. $29.95 (US), paper; SHELDON WATTS. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 400. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by F. B. Smith
JOHN A. HALL. A History of the Peninsular War: VIII: The Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808-1814. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 640. £35.00. Reviewed by John K. Severn
HENRY SCHWARZ. Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. x, 199. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Martha McLaren
RANAJIT GUHA. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 245. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Milton Israel
PASCAL JAMES IMPERATO. Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 332. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Tim Youngs
JACK GREENE and ALESSANDRO MASSIGNANI. Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891. Conshohocken: Combined Publishing, 1998. Pp. 423. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler
ANTJE HAGEN. Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in Groβbritannien, 1871-1918. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 356. DM 148. Reviewed by Paul Kennedy
NICHOLAS CONSTANTINESCO. Romania on the European Stage, 1875-1880: The Quest for National Sovereignty and Independence. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1998; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 204. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by David MacKenzie
SAMIR SAUL. La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914: Intérêts économiques et implications politiques. Paris: Ministry of Economies, Finance, and Industry, 1997. Pp. xix, 787. Fr. 249. Reviewed by Roger Owen
PATRICK SALMON. Scandinavia and the Great Powers, 1890-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 421. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Mikael af Malmborg
PETER HASLINGER. Hundert Jahre Nachbarschaft: Die Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und Ungarn, 1895-1994. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xvi, 395. $63.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by George Barany
RAJA MENON. Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xvi, 215. $22.50 (US), paper; PHILLIPS PAYSON O'BRIEN. British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 274. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jon Tetsuro Sumida
KENNETH D. BROWN. Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History since 1900. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 269. $39.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Ian Nish
STEPHANIE PO-YIN CHUNG. Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900-25. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 188. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk
JONATHAN M. SOFFER. General Matthew B. Ridgway: From Progressivism to Reaganism, 1895-1993. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 246. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by William Stueck
JOHN HORNE, ed. State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 292. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by J. F. V. Keiger
GLENN E. TORREY. Romania and World War I: A Collection of Studies. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 392. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen
YIGAL SHEFFY. British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xviii, 380. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by David Fromkin
ROGER CHICKERING. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 227. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig
JERRY W. JONES. US Battleship Operations in World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 170. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by Paul G. Halpern
ANDREA CHANDLER. Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1917-1993. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 205. $44.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Sherman W. Garnett
RONALD E. POWASKI. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 356. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Norman E. Saul
CHRISTINE COLLETTE. The International Faith: Labour's Attitudes to European Socialism, 1918-39. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 211. $55.95 (US). Reviewed by:Pamela M. Graves
ALFRED L. CASTLE. Diplomatic Realism: William R. Castle, Jr. and American Foreign Policy, 1919-1953. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 251. $32.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Freeman Smith
ROLANDE DEPOORTERE. La question des réparations allemandes dans la politique étrangère de la Belgique après la première guerre mondiale, 2019-1925. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1997. Pp. 440. FrB 1500. Reviewed by Sally Marks
AMOS PERLMUTTER. Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvi, 194. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner
PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920-1939. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xix, 432. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Allan R, Millett
MOGENS PELT. Tobacco, Arms, and Politics: Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1939-41. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1998; dist. Concord: Paul and Company. Pp. 342. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jon V. Kofas
ALAN MEGAHEY. Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 241. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Carver
MICHAEL A. BUTLER. Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 240. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes
MICHAEL L. ROI. Alternative to Appeasement: Sir Robert Vansittart and Alliance Diplomacy, 1934-1937. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. x, 198. $57.95 (US). Reviewed by Glyn A. Stone
BROCK MILLMAN. The Ill-Made Alliance: Anglo-Turkish Relations, 1934-1940. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 518. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Margaret Lamb
JOEL BLATT, ed. The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments. Providence: Berghahn, 1998. Pp. viii, 372. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Samir Saul
BRIDGET GOODWIN. Keen as Mustard: Britain's Horrific Chemical Warfar