J. F. LAZENBY. The First Punic War: A Military History. London: UCL Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 205. £12.95, paper. Reviewed by Richard E. Mitchell
BRENT D. SHAW. Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa. Alder-shot: Variorum, 1995; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. Pp. xii, 338. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by C. R. Whitakker
GEOFF KING. Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 216. $39.95(ZUS), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman J.W. Thrower
PATRICIA SEED. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 197. $49.95 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gwindler Williams
PAUL DOUGLAS LOCKHART. Denmark in the Thirty Years War, 1618–1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State. Selingsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by John Theibault
PETER H. WILSON. War, State, and Society in Wiirttemberg, 1677–1793. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 294. $27.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Franz A. J. Szabo
JOHN DUNMORE, ed. The Journal of Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785–1788. Volume I. London: Hakluyt Society, 1994. Pp. ccxl, 232. £35.00; Volume II: 1995. Pp. vi, 613. £35.00. Reviewed by Alan Frost
ARTHUR L. STINCHCOMBE. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 361. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by David Eltis
BRIAN BOND. The Pursuit of Victory: From Napoleon to Saddam Hussein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 240. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter
JUDITH EWELL. Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemisphere to Petroleum's Empire. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. x, 267. $50.00 (US), cloth; $20.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Thomas Schoonover
S. C. M. PAINE. Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier. Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. xxi, 417. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. White
OLAF ROSE. Carl von Clausewitz. Wirkungsgeschichte seines Werkes in Rußiland und der Sowjetunion 1836–1991. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1995. Pp. vi, 275. DM78. Reviewed by Daniel Moran
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LOUIS THIERCELIN. Travels in Oceania: Memoirs of a Whaling Ship's Doctor, 1866, trans. Christiane Mortelier. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 350. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Colin Newbury
ROBERT T. HARRISON. Gladstone's Imperialism in Egypt: Techniques of Domination. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. 184. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Marvin Scwartz
S. BERNARD THOMAS. Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 416. $34.95 (US); Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion
LAWRENCE D. KESSLER. The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China, 1895–1951. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 212. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion
VAHAKN N. DADRIAN. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995. Pp. xxviii, 452. $39.95 (US); Reviewed by Dennis R. Papazian
MANOUG JOSEPH SOMAKIAN. Empires in Conflict: Armenia and the Great Powers, i895–1920. London: I. B. Tauris, 1995; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 276. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Dennis R. Papazian
DAVID LONG. Towards a New Liberal Internationalism: The International Theory of J. A. Hobson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 273. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter Cain
J. P. HARRIS. Men, Ideas, and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 342. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid
STANLEY G. PAYNE. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 613. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by H. A. Turner
ASHER SUSSER and ARYEH SHMUELEVITZ, eds. The Hashemites in the Modern Aral World: Essays in Honour of the Late Professor Uriel Dann. London: Frank Cass 1995; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xv, 246. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Howard J. Dooley
G. H. BENNETT. British Foreign Policy during the Curzon Period, 1919–1924. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 243. $65.00 (US); Reviewed by Keith Neilson
DAVID S. FOGLESONG. America's Secret War against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1717–1720. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. x, 386. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith Neilson
GUNTER BERGHAUS, ed. Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. vi, 315. $24.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stanley G. Payne
GORDON W. MORRELL. Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: Anglo-Soviet Relations and the Metro-Vickers Crisis. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 204. $34–95 (CDN). Reviewed by Teddy J. Uldricks
DIETMAR ROTHERMUND. The Global Impact of the Great Depression. London and New York: Roudedge, 1996. Pp. xi, 180. £11.99, paper. Reviewed by Barry Eichengreen
CLYDE SANGER. Malcolm MacDonald: Bringing an End to Empire. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 498. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John W. Cell
STEPHEN G. FRITZ. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Pp. x, 299. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Armin E. Mruck
JÜRGEN HEIDEHNG and CHRISTOF MAUCH, eds. American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 457. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Clay Large
MATTHEW JONES. Britain, the United Sates, and the Mediterranean War, 1942–44 New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 293. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren F. Kimball
G. E. MAGUIRE. Anglo-American Policy towards the Free French. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. x, 210. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. Young
MOSHE GAT. Britain and Italy, 1943–1949: The Decline of British Influence. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 230. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan Cassels
KENNETH P. WERRELL. Blankets of Fire: US Bombers over Japan during Work War II. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 350. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Conrad C. Crane
GLEN JEANSONNE. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 264. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Harriet Hyman Alonso
MICHAELJ. HOGAN, ed. Hiroshima in History and Memory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 238. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth
FREDERICK B. PIKE. FDR'S Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Tears of Generally Gentle Chaos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Pp. xxvi,394. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen J. Randall
NORMAN M. NAIMARK. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone 0 Occupation, 1945–1949. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press 1995. Pp. xv, 586. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John Erikson
DOMINIQUE-D. JUNOD. The Imperiled Red Cross and the Palestine-Eretz-Yisrael Conflict, 1945–1952. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xvi, 344. $76.50 (US). Reviewed by David P. Forsythe
ERIC ROMAN. Hungary and the Victor Powers, 1945–1950. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x,342. $49–95 (US). Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig
GUNTHER MAI. Der Alliierte Kontrollrat in Deutschland 1945–1948. Alliierte Einheit - deutsche Teilung? Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1995. Pp. xiii, 536. DM 198. Reviewed by G¨nter Bischof
FRANCIS H. HELLER and JOHN R. GILLINGHAM. The United States and the Integration of Europe: Legacies of the Postwar Era. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. 410. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. Milward
DAVID MAYERS. The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. New York: Oxforc University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 335. $51.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith Eagles
M. SRINIVAS CHARY. The Eagle and the Peacock: US Foreign Policy toward India since Independence. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 194. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh
STEVEN HUGH LEE. Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam, and the Origins of th Cold War in Asia, 1945–1954. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 295. $39–95 (CDN), cloth; $19.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by R. B. Smith
SHU GUANG ZHANG. Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950–1953. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. Pp. xiii,338. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael H. Hunt
BURTON I. KAUFMAN. The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. Pp. xvii, 291. $26.95 (US); Reviewed by Douglas Little
BONNIE F. SAUNDERS. The United States and Arab Nationalism: The Syrian Case, 1953–1960. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. x, 115. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Douglas Little
CHEN JIAN. China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 339. $42.00 (US); Reviewed by Kenneth G. Hamburger
DENNIS E. SHOWALTER and JOHN G. ALBERT, eds. An American Dilemma: Vietnam, 1964–1973. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1993. Pp. ix, 203. $22.95 (vs). paper. Reviewed by Kenneth G. Hamburger
TONY CHAFER and BRIAN JENKINS, eds. France: From the Cold War to the New World Order. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. xi, 245. £40.00. Reviewed by Samir Saul
SAKI DOCKRILL. Eisenhower's Mew-Look National Security Policy, 1953–61. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 400. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Tony Shaw
MORDECHAI BAR-ON. The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back, 1955–1957 London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xi, 404. £30.00. Reviewed by Motti Golanti
G. WYN REES. Anglo-American Approaches to Alliance Security, 1955–60. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiv, 214. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Clark
GARY D. RAWNSLEY. Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956–64. London: Macmillan, 1996; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 224. $59–95 (US). Reviewed by Asa Briggs
PETER J. ROMAN. Eisenhower and the Missile Gap. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 264. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by George H. Quester
JOHN C. AUSLAND. Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Berlin-Cuba Crisis, 1961-1964. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 239. $29.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow
WILLIAM CONRAD GIBBONS. The US Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships: Part IV: July 1965–January 1968. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 969. $24.95 (US), paper; Reviewed by R. B. Smith
LLOYD C. GARDNER. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Pp. xv, 610. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by R. B. Smith
MORDECHAI BAR-ON. In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement. Washington D.C.: US Institute of Peace Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 470. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Benny Morris
MARK GALEOTTI. Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. ix, 242. $37.50 (US). Reviewed by Odd Arne Westad
KEMAL H. KARPAT, ed. Turkish Foreign Policy: Recent Developments. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Pp. 213. $27.00 (US). Reviewed by Dilek Baras
KEITH NEILSON and ELIZABETH JANE ERRINGTON, eds. Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. viii, 236. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Eric Grove
GEOFF SIMONS. UN Malaise: Power, Problems, and Realpolitik. London: Macmillan, 1995; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xx, 356. £40.00; Reviewed by Paul F. Deihl
JAMES H. ALLAN. Peacekeeping: Outspoken Observations by a Field Officer. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xvii, 200. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Deihl
PHILIP ZELIKOW and CONDOLEEZZA RICE. Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 493. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Susanne Peters
JAMES P. NICHOL. Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xii, 244. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark Krueger
JOSEP R. LLOBERA. The God of Modernity: The Development of Nationalism in Western Europe. Providence: Berg Publishers, 1994. Pp. xiv, 229. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Mayall
J. A. MANGAN, ed. Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport. London: Frank Cass, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 248. $29.50 (US). Reviewed by Wray Vamplew
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN and ABRAHAM R. WAGNER. The Lessons of Modern War. Volume IV: The Gulf War. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 1,022. $98.00 (US), cloth; $23–95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lawrence Freedman
MOSTAFA REJAL and KAY PHILLIPS. World Military Leaders: A Collective and Com-parative Analysis. New York: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xxi, 164. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Colin Elman
DAN REITER. Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 232. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Randolph M. Siverson
NORIO NAKA. Predicting Outcomes in United States-Japan Trade Negotiations: The Political Process of the Structural Impediments Initiative. Westport: Quorum Books, 1996. Pp. xvii, 269. $59–95 (US). Reviewed by Renée Marlin-Bennett
STEPHEN M. WALT. Revolution and War. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 365. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Deborah Welch Larson
JONATHAN MERCER. Reputation and International Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 236. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Jack S. Levy