Book Notes

THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY. By G. R. Elton JOHN LOCKE, TWO TREATISES O F GOVERNMENT: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and Apparatus Critici by Peter Laslett JOHN LOCKE, TWO TRACTS OF GOVERNMENT. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Translation by Philip Abrams LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. By James Fitzjames Stephen. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by R. J. White EIGHTEENTH CENTURY OPTIMISM: A Study of the Interrelations of Moral and Social Theory in English and French Thought between 1689 and 1789. By Charles Vereker INFLUENCING VOTERS: A Study of Campaign Rationality. By Richard Rose THE LIFE OF ELEANOR MARX 1855–1898: A Socialist Tragedy. By Chushichi Tsuzuki GREAT LIVES OBSERVED: CHURCHILL. Edited by Martin Gilbert THE KING AND HIS DOMINION GOVERNORS. By H. V. Evatt LOCAL GOVERNMENT AT WORK: A case study of a County Borough. By H. Victor Wiseman THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN HISTORY. By Thomas H. Johnson in consultation with Harvey Wish HISTORICAL STUDIES : Selected Articles. Second Series. Compiled by Margot Beever and F. B. Smith DE GAULLE AND THE WORLD: The Foreign Polity of the Fifth French Republic. By W. W. Kulski NUREMBURG IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By Gerald Strauss     

POETRY IN REVIEW

Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems , by John Kinsella, Selected and with an introduction by Harold Bloom     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Stokes, Doug (2005) America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia. Helmke, Gretchen (2005) Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina. Wood, Andrew Grant (ed.) (2004) On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico. Ochoa, Gilda L. (2004) Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict and Solidarity. Yashar, Deborah J. (2005) Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. Herrera, Robinson A. (2003). Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth‐Century Santiago de Guatemala. Butler, Matthew (2004) Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–1929. Whitehead, Neil L. and Wright, Robin (eds) (2004) In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. Richard, Nelly (2004) The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation and Poetics of the Crisis Richard, Nelly (2004) Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference Steven Palmer and Ivan Molina (eds) (2004). The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: POLITICS, LANGUAGE and TIME: Essays on Political Thought and History. By J. G. A. Pocock. INDIRECT RULE AND THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE: Essays in East African Legal History. By H. F. Morris and James S. Read. HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE. THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE, 1460–1559. By Eugene F. Rice jr. THE AGE OF RELIGIOUS WARS, 1559–1689. By Richard S. Dunn. KINGS AND PHILOSOPHERS, 1689–1789. By L. Krieger. THE AGE OF REVOLUTION AND REACTION, 1789–1850. By C. Breunig. THE AGE OF NATIONALISM AND REFORM, 1850–1890. By N. Rich. THE END OF THE EUROPEAN ERA, 1890 to the present. By F. Gilbert. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION: Doctrine and action, 1789–1804. By J. Godechot, translated by S. Attanasio. HITLER? HORTHY? AND HUNGARY: Germ; in-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944. By Mario D. Fenyo. THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 IN ENGLAND. By J. R. Jones. THE BRITISH EMPIRE-COMMONWEALTH, 1897–1931. By John Kendle. THE DURHAM REPORT AND BRITISH POLICY: A Critical Essay. By Ged Martin. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CONTEMPORARY COMMONWEALTH ISSUES. By Robert R. Wilson. THE EMERGENCE OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. By S. R. Mehrotra. INDIA'S DEMOCRACY. By A. H. Hanson and Janet Douglas. THE DYNAMICS OF INDIAN POLITICAL FACTIONS: A Study of District Councils in the State of Maharashtra. By M. C. Carras. THE WAGES OF WAR 1816–1965: A Statistical Handbook. By J. David Singer and Melvin Small. ECONOMIC GROWTH IN HISTORY: Survey and Analysis. By J. D. Gould. EMILE DURKHEIM: Selected Writings. Edited and translated by A. Giddens. HISTORISM: The Rise of a new Historical Outlook. By F. Meinecke; translated by J. E. Anderson. TOWARDS THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HISTORY: Selected Essays. By Lee Benson. POLITICS AND SOCIAL INSIGHT. By Francis G. Castles. CAPITALISM AND MODERN SOCIAL THEORY: An analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. By A. Giddens. LEGAL CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: Administrative Law in Britain and the United States. By Bernard Schwartz and H. W. R. Wade. THE COUNTRY PARTY IN NEW SOUTH WALES: A Study of Organisation and Survival. By D. Aitkin. A FINE COUNTRY TO STARVE IN. By G. C. Bolton. ADELAIDE AND THE COUNTRY 1870–1917: Their Social and Political Relationship. By J. B. Hirst. THE MAKING OF AN AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER. By Laurie Oakes and David Solomon. PROTESTANTISM AND SOCIAL REFORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1890–1910. By J. D. Bollen. CONSCRIPTION: Necessity and Justice: the Case for an All Volunteer Army. By Glenn Withers. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD IN NEW ZEALAND: His Political Career, 18534. By Peter Stuart. SILENT POLITICS: Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion. By Leo Bogart. THE POLITICS OF UNREASON: Right-Wing Extremism in America 1790–1970. By S. M. Lipset and E. Raab. RADICALS OR CONSERVATIVES? The Contemporary American Right. By J. McEvoy III. THE BROKEN REBEL: A Study in Culture, Politics and the Authoritarian Character. By Rupert Wilkinson. PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS. Edited by G. Parry. CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY: Sociological Illusion or Reality? By J. Scherer. COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURE: Propositional Inventory, Tests and Theory. By C. W. Gilbert. GOVERNING WITHOUT CONSENSUS: An Irish Perspective. By Richard Rose. ULSTER: A Case Study in Conflict Theory. By R. S. P. Elliot and John Hickie. IRELAND'S ENGLISH QUESTION: Anglo-Irish Relations 1534–1970. By Patrick O'Farrell.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: POLICE AND GOVERNMENT: Histories of Policing in Australia By Mark Finnane OBSTACLE RACE: Aborigines in Sport By Colin Tatz HISTORICAL REFRACTIONS. Vol. XIV: Studies in Western Australian History Edited by Charlie Fox. MEDICINE AT WAR: Medical Aspects of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asia 1950–1972 By Brendan G. O'Keefe with Agent Orange: The Australian Aftermath by F. B. Smith. THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY UNDER LABOUR Edited by Greg Mahony. DIPLOMACY IN THE MARKETPLACE: Australia in World Affairs, Vol. 7, 1981–1990 Edited by P. J. Boyce and J. R. Angel. AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE WORLD OF THE 1990s By Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant PARTIES AND FEDERALISM IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA Edited by Campbell Sharman RAIN DANCING: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy By Kim Richard Nossel REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS: Implications and Options for Australia By Richard Snape, Jan Adams and David Morgan THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY IN THE JAPANESE MIRROR Edited by Kyoko Sheridan THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: An Australian Introduction By K. J. Walker OUTSIDERS: Class, Gender and Nation By Dorothy Thompson THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FRANCE By Colin Jones MOLTKE, SCHLIEFFEN AND PRUSSIAN WAR PLANNING By Arden Buchholz ITALY SINCE 1800: A Nation in Balance?By Roger Absalom. IL CONFLITTO ARABO-ISRAELIANO Documentazione Essenziale (1990–1993) By Ministero degli Affari Esteri DOMESTIC FOOD PRODUCTION AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN KENYA By Scott MacWilliam, France Desauhin and Wendy Timms U.S. HEGEMONY UNDER SIEGE: Class, Politics and Development in Latin America By James Petras and Morris Morley THE POLITICS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY By Jerel A. Rosati MARXISM AND NATIONALISM: Theoretical Origins of a Political Crisis By Ephraim Nimni THE PLURALIST THEORY OF THE STATE: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski Edited by Paul Q. Hirst JUSTICE AND WORLD ORDER: A Philosophical Inquiry By Janna Thompson INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF SOCIAL CHANGE By Jan Aart Scholte THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE IN ARISTOTLE'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY By Judith A. Swanson     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Grandin, Greg (2004) The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Domínguez, Francisco and Guedes de Oliveira, Marcos (eds) (2004) Mercosur: Between Integration and Democracy Shadlen, Kenneth (2004) Democratization without Representation. The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico. Garreton, Manuel Antonio (2003) Incomplete Democracy. Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America. Bennett, Vivienne, Dávila‐Poblete, Sonia and Nieves Rico, María (eds) (2005) Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. Schneider, Ben Ross (2004) Business Politics and the State in Twentieth‐Century Latin America. de Ferranti, David, Perry, Guillermo E., Ferreira, Francisco H.G. and Walton, Michael (2004) Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? Van Oss, A.C. (2003) Church and Society in Spanish America. Florescano, Enrique and García Acosta, Virginia (eds) (2004) Mestizajes tecnológicos y cambios culturales en México. Weiner, Richard (2004) Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Dawson, Alexander S. (2004) Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. Newcomer, Daniel (2004) Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s León, Mexico. Olsen, Margaret (2004) Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. Larson, Brooke (2004) Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes. Christiansen, Tanja (2004) Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862–1900. Watanabe, John M. and Fischer, Edward F. (eds) (2004) Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities. Knab, Timothy (2004) The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, Curing, and the Modern Aztec Underworld. Kuss, Malena (ed) (2004) Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America and Mexico. Burgos, Raúl (2004) Los gramscianos argentinos: cultura y política en la experiencia de Pasado y Presente. Dorfman, Ariel (2004) Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980–2004.     

Book Notes

FASCISM, ANTI-FASCISM AND ITALIANS IN AUSTRALIA 1922–1945. By Gianfranco Cresciani. THE ITALIAN FARMING SOLDIERS: Prisoners of War in Australia 1941–1947. By Alan Fitzgerald. AUSTRALIAS IMMIGRANTS. By Geoffrey Sherington. POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION IN AUSTRALIA: A Bibliography of resources for study in the National Library of Australia. SIXTY YEARS OF STRUGGLE: A journal of communist and labour history. COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION: Report on State Tax Sharing Entitlements 1981. ONE MANS WAR. By Stan Arneil. THAT DAMNED DEMOCRAT: John Norton, an Australian populist THE GREAT PROFESSIONAL: A Study of W. M. Hughes. By Malcolm Booker. AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND: A Select Guide to Resources: Humanities and Social Sciences. Compiled by Margaret Zerner. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY: Monographs, Part 3, The Social Sciences (Excluding Material relating to the Aborigines). Compiled by Carol M. Mills. LITERACY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. By David Cressy. LATIN AMERICA IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE REFERENCE BOOKS: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. By Ann Hartness Graham and Richard D. Woods. THE RITES OF RULERS: Ritual in Industrial Society-the Soviet Case. By Christel Lane. POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOVIET SOCIALISM. By Alec Nove. SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY. By Peter Burke. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS: An organizntional perspective. By D. C. Pitt and B. C. Smith. IN SEARCH OF THE CONSTITUTION: Reflections on State and Society in Britain. By Nevi1 Johnson. JOHN HOPTON: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman. By Colin Richmond. PROPAGANDA IN WAR 1939–1945: Organisations, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany. By Michael Balfour. WORK AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE: The Language of Labour from the Old Regime to 1848. By William H. Sewell, Jr. EUROCOMMUNISM AND EUROSOCIALISM: The Left Confronts Modernity. Edited by Bernard E. Brown. AN INTRODUCTION TO UKRAINIAN HISTORY: Volume 1. Ancient and Kievan-Galician UkraineRus. By Nicholas L. FrXhirovsky. ECONOMICS FOR HISTORIANS. By G. R. Hawke.     

Book Notes

Book reviewed in this article: PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS. Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture. By A. J. Ayer. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND FREEDOM: The Vatican Council and Some Modern Issues. By Dennis Kenny. St. Lucia INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS: Essays and Readings. By Nelson P. Guild and Kenneth T. Palmer POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETIES: Studies in Comparative Analysis. Edited by Lewis J. Edinger POLITICAL STABILITY AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR: Inaugural Lecture delivered at he University of Queensland, 11 October, 1966. By Colin A. Hughes. St. Lucia ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. By G. C. Harcourt, P. H. Karmel and R. H. Wallace TOWN ORIGINS: The Evidence irom Medieval England. Edited with an introduction by John F. Benton THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION: A Documentary History edited by B. J. Bernstein and A. J. Matusow SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. Edited with a preface by Jerzy F. Karcz THE SWATANTRA PARTY AND INDIAN CONSERVATISM. By H. L. Erdman INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN INDIA. By A. Ray HO CHI MINH ON REVOLUTION: Selected Writings, 1920-66. Edited and introduced by Bernard B. Fall A SHORT HISTORY OF CHINESE COMMUNISM. By Franklin W. Houn ISAN: Regionalism in Northeastern Thailand. By Charles F. Keyes VIETNAM'S UNHELD ELECTIONS: The Failure to carry out the 1956 Reunification Elections and the Effect on Hanoi's present Outlook. By Franklin B. Weinstein A POLITICAL HISTORY OF TROPICAL AFRICA. By Robert I. Rotberg NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN NEW ZEALAND AND JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN TRISTAN DA CUNHA. By Augustus Earle. Edited by E. H. McCormick POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES IN AUSTRALIA PRISON BOYS OF PORT ARTHUR: A Study of the Point Puer Boys' Establishment, Van Diemen's Land, 1834 to 1850. By F. C. Hooper A HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN AUSTRALIA. By J. T. Sutcliffe PARADISE OF DISSENT: South Australia 1829-1857. By Douglas Pike IF I REMEMBER RIGHTLY: The Memoirs of W. S. Robinson 1876-1963. Edited by Geoffrey Blainey THE COLONIZATION OF AUSTRALIA (1829-42): The Wakefield Experiment in Empire Building. By Richard Charles Mills A NEW PROVINCE FOR LAW AND ORDER: Being a Review by its late President for fourteen years of the Australian Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. By Henry Bourne Higgins     

Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945

Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945. By Noah Riseman and Richard Trembath (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2016), pp. xi + 243, photographs, bibliography, AU$34.95 (pb).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Feinberg, Richard E. Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report. Lipsey, Richard G., and Patricio Meller, eds. Western Hemisphere Trade Integration: A Canadian-Latin American Dialogue. Gill, Anthony. Rendering unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America. Joyce, Elizabeth, and Carlos Malamud, eds. Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade. Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and William C. Smith, eds. Latin America in the World Economy. Smith, William C., and Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, eds. Politics, Social Change, and Economic Restructuring in Latin America. Tardanico, Richard, and Rafael Menjívar Larín, eds. Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America. Peeler, John A. Building Democracy in Latin America. Atkins, G. Pope, and Larman C. Wilson. The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism. The United States and the Americas series, vol. 11. Hartlyn, Jonathan. The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic. Falcoff, Mark. Panama's Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What It Wants.     

Iranian balances

Roots of Revolution, An Interpretive History of Modern Iran, by Nikki R. Keddie with a Section by Yann Richard. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. Pp.321.

Continuity and Change in Modern Iran edited by Michael Bonine and Nikki R. Keddie, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp.359.     

International relations: the dawn of a historiographical turn?

Books reviewed in this article:
Donnelly, Jack, Realism in International Relations
Dunne, Tim, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School
Schmidt, Brian, The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations
Tuck, Richard, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant     

Book Notes

Book reviewed in this article: SOCIOLOGY. By S. Giner SUPER POWERS AND WORLD ORDER. Edited by Carsten Holbraad THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR, 1941-1947: A Historical Problem with Interpretations and Documents. Edited by Walter LaFeber AFRICA IN TRANSITION: Geographical Essays. Edited by B. W. Hodder and D. R. Harris ENVIRONMENT AND LAND USE IN AFRICA. Edited by M. F. Thomas and G. W. Whitington INSIDE VIEW: Three Lectures on Rime Ministerial Government. By Richard Crossman POLITICAL PARTIES IN MODERN BRITAIN: An Organizational and Functional Guide. Edited by John D. Lees and Richard Kimber CAN BRITAIN SURVIVE? By D. E. Bland and K. W. Watkins CROSSING THE FLOOR. By Humphrey Berkeley THE GLADSTONES: A Family Biography 1764-1851. By S. G. Checkland THE CAUSES OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION 1629-1642. By Lawrence Stone THE POLITICS OF PROTECTION: Lord Derby and the Protectionist Party 1841-1852. By Robert Stewart AN IMPERIAL WAR AND THE BRITISH WORKING CLASS: Working-class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War 1899-1902. By Richard Price COLLECTED PAPERS ON THE JACOBITE RISINGS: Volume 2. By Ruport C. Jarvis THE MARKET IN A SOCIALIST ECONOMY. By Wlodzimierz Brus MY CONSULATE IN SAMOA: A Record of Four Years' Sojourn in the Navigators Islands, with Personal Experiences of King Malietoa Laupepa, his Country, and his Men. By William B. Churchward KIDNAPPING IN THE SOUTH SEAS. By Captain George Palmer TREASURY OFFICIALS 1660-1870. Compiled by J. C. Sainty THE PEELITES AND THE PARTY SYSTEM 1846-52. By J. B. Conacher THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISTS: Modem Critical Essays. Edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe THE GLORIOUS YEARS OF AUSTRALIA FAIR FROM THE BIRTH OF THE BULLETIN TO VERSAILLES. By Graeme Inson and Russel Ward LAW AND CRIME: Essays in Honor of Sir John Barry. Edited by Norval Morris and Mark Perlman THE POLICEMAN'S POSITION TODAY AND TOMORROW: An Examination of the Victorian Police Force. By Paul R. Wilson and John S. Western A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT, 1860-1929. By D. B. Waterson A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT, 1859-1900. By Kathleen Thomson and Geoffrey Serle STYLE MANUAL FOR AUTHORS, EDITORS AND PRINTERS OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS     

Review Essay

Books reviewed in this article:
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror , by Stephen Kinzer
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib , by Seymour M. Hersh
Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia , by Thomas W. Lippman
Breaking Ranks , by Ronit Chacham, ed
The Palestinian People, A History , by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal
Syria and the Palestinians: The Clash of Nationalisms , by Ghada Hashem Talhami
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain , by María Rosa Menocal, foreword by Harold Bloom
The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization , by Richard W. Bulliet     

Book Notes

BAAL BELBORA: The End of the Dancing. By Geoffrey Blomfield.
WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN AND HIS IRISH REVOLUTIONARY COMPANIONS IN PENAL EXILE. By Blanche M. Touhill.
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE. By L. J. Macfarlane.
BRITISH PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM. Edited by Paul Wilkinson.
THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. By J. P. Windmuller.
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. Books I–III. By Adam Smith.
INVENTING AUSTRALIA: Images and Identity 1688–1980. By Richard White.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite , by Robert D. Kaplan. The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East , by Richard B. Parker. Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity , by Elmer Berger. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship , by Paul Findley Profits of War , by Ari Ben-Menashe. Americans and the Palestinian Question: The U.S. Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973–1978 , by Marianne van Leeuwen. Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society , by Robert B. Cunningham and Yasin K. Sarayrah. Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects , by J. E. Hartshorn. The Forgotten Queens of Islam , by Fatima Mernissi. Translated from French by Mary Jo Lakeland.     

Politics and Culture: Toward an Arab Agenda for the 21st Century

The author o/Bitter Legacy: Ideology and Politics in the Arab World (Syracuse University Press, 1994), the editor of Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Selected Essays (American University of Beirut 1997), and numerous articles on Lebanon and the Arab world.     

The Pursuit of Power. Europe 1815–1914: To Hell and Back. Europe 1914–1949

The Pursuit of Power. Europe 1815–1914 . By Richard J. Evans (London: Allen Lane, 2016), pp.xxiv + 819, maps and colour plates, £25.00 (hb). To Hell and Back. Europe 1914–1949 . By Ian Kershaw (London: Allen Lane, 2015), pp.xx + 593, maps and colour and b/w plates. £30.00 (hb).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume I , edited by Augustus Richard Norton.
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy , by Avi Shlaim.
Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy , by Camille Mansour.
Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad , by Ziad Abu-Amr.
The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World , by Gilles Kepel.
Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East , by John Bulloch and Adel Darwish.
Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication Culture and the Iranian Revolution , by Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi.
Don't Kill the Messenger: The Tragic Story of Wells Hangen and Other Journalistic Combat Victims , by Charles Arnot.
A Persian Requiem , by Simin Daneshvar, translated from the Farsi by Roxane Zand.     

Books Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA By Russel Ward. NATIONS OF IMMIGRANTS: Australia, the United States and International Migration Edited by Gary P. Freeman and James Jupp. QUEENSLAND AND GERMANY: Ethnic, Socio-Cultural, Political and Trade Relations, 1838–1991 By Alan Corkhill. MILLERS POINT: The Urban Village By Shirley Fitzgerald and Christopher Keating. THE MYSTIC LIFE OF ALFRED DEAKIN By Al Gabay: THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE HIGH COURT By David Solomon. AN ARMY FOR A NATION: A History of Australian Military Developments 1880–1914 By John Mordike. AUSTRALIA AND THE KAISER'S WAR 1914–1918: On Understanding the ANZAC Tradition. Argument and Theses By John A. Moses with Gregory Munro. HIGH COMMAND: Australia's Struggle for an Independent War Strategy 1939–1945 David Horner. BARNACLES AND PARASITES: Independent Members of the South Australian Parliament 1927–1970 By Reece Jennings. FEDERALISM AND HEALTH POLICY: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia By Gwendolyn Gray, Toronto: CHILDREN AND THE STATE: Social Control and the Formation of Australian Child Welfare By Robert Van Krieken. AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY: What Policy? Edited by Michael Costa and Michael Easson. THE END OF CERTAINTY: The Story of the 1980s By Paul Kelly. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR HISTORY By Greg Patmore. HAWKE: An Emotional Life By Stan Anson. TRIALS IN POWER: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992 Edited by Mark Considine and Brian Costar. KEEPING THEM HONEST: Democratic Reform in Queensland Edited by Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser and Mark Neylan. MEDIEVAL HERESY: Popular Movements From the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation By Malcolm Lambert. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN EUROPEAN WORLD By Edward Whiting Fox. FALLEN SOLDIERS: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars By George L Mosse. UNCERTAIN UNIONS: Marriage in England 1660–1753 By Lawrence Stone. SWEARING: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English By Geoffrey Hughes. WALTER LONG, IRELAND, AND THE UNION, 1905–1920 By John Kendle. COMMAND ON THE WESTERN FRONT: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-18 By Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. BRITAIN IN THE 1930s: The Deceptive Decade By Andrew Thorpe. NORTHERN IRELAND: Politics and the Constitution Edited by Brigid Hadfield. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Hero and Anti-Hero of the French Revolution By Ian Germani, Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: FRENCH SOCIALISM AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE: Women and the New Society, 1803-44 By Susan K. ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE THIRD REICH By Hermann Graml, translated by Tim Kirk. MODERNITY AND THE HOLOCAUST By Zygmunt Bauman. FOREVER IN THE SHADOW OF HITLER: The Dispute about the Germans' Understanding of History. Original Documents of the Historikerstreit: The Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust Translated from the German by James Knowlton and Truett Cates. CORRUPTION: Ethics and Power in Florence, 1600–1770 By Jean-Claude Waquet. PAUL I OF RUSSIA, 1754–1801 By Roderick E. McGrew. THE INVASIONS OF THE GULF: Radicalism, Ritualism and the Sheikhs By Paul Rich. POLITICAL LEADERS IN BLACK AFRICA: A Biographical Dictionary of the Major Politicians Since Independence By John A Wiseman. TRAPPED BY SUCCESS: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61 By David L Anderson. SOLDIERS, STATESMEN, AND COLD WAR CRISES By Richard K. Betts. LAOGAI: The Chinese Gulag By Hongda Harry Wu. THE SOUTH PACIFIC FOREIGN AFFAIRS HANDBOOK By Steve Hoadley. POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN HAWAI'I Edited by Zachary A. Smith and Richard C. ANTARCTICA: An Economic History of the Last Continent By Martijn Wilder. POLITICAL MANAGEMENT IN THE 1990S By John Halligan and John Power. AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT By David Corbett. THE AUSTRALIAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT By Richard Lucy. VOTER'S CHOICE: Electoral Change in New Zealand? By Helena Catt, Paul Harris, and Nigel S. Roberts. COMPARATIVE URBAN POLITICS: Power and the City in the United States, Canada, Britain and France By Michael Keating ETHICS AND FOREIGN POLICY Edited by Paul Keal. GLOBAL POLITICS By Anthony G. McGrew and Paid G. Lewis et al. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SINCE 1945 Edited by Ronald Barston. CONTINUITIES IN POLITICAL ACTION: A Longitudinal Study of Political Orientations in Three Western Democracies By M. Kent Jennings et al. LABOR PARTIES IN POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES Edited by Frances Fox Piven. CLASS Richard Scase. Buckingham: ENVIRONMENTALISM AND POLITICAL THEORY: Toward an Ecocentric Approach Robyn Eckersley. ESSAYS ON POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Vol 6, Library of the History of Ideas. Edited by Patrick Riley HEINRICH HEINE ALS POLITISCHER DICHTER By Walter Grab.