Capet on Overy, 'The Road to War'
Richard Overy. The Road to War. London: Penguin Books, 1999. xix + 444 pp. £9.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-028530-7.
Reviewed by Antoine Capet (Université de Rouen) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
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Richard Overy. The Road to War. London: Penguin Books, 1999. xix + 444 pp. £9.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-028530-7.
Reviewed by Antoine Capet (Université de Rouen) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
Stephen G. Rabe. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 257 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2461-0; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-4764-0.Stephen G. Rabe. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 296 pp.
Michael Rapport. Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: The Treatment of Foreigners 1789-1799. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 382 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-820845-7.
Reviewed by David Andress (School of Social and Historical Studies, University of Portsmouth) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
David L. Snead. The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x + 286 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-5005-1.
Reviewed by Richard H. Immerman (Department of History, Temple University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
DUCK and COVER
DUCK and COVER
Paul Wapner, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, eds. Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations. Lanham, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. xii + 399 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7425-0065-5.
Reviewed by Howard H. Lentner (Department of Political Science, Baruch College, and Ph.D. Program in Political Science, Graduate School, City University of New York) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
Aaron Forsberg. America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii + 332pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2528-0.
Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb (National Endowment for the Humanities) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
Japan's Postwar Economic Recovery
Allan M. Winkler. The Cold War: A History in Documents. New York, and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 160 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-512356-2.
Reviewed by David L. Snead (Department of History, Texas Tech University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2000)
An Incomplete Look at the Cold War
An Incomplete Look at the Cold War
Peter Grose. Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. ix + 256 pp. $25 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-395-51606-5.
Reviewed by Johanna Granville (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2000)
"Making Trouble for Joe Stalin in His Own Backyard"
Kirsten E. Schulze. The Arab-Israeli Conflict. London and New York: Longman, 1999. vii + 148 pp. $14.66 (paper), ISBN 978-0-582-31646-1.
Reviewed by Mark Kass (Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2000)
A Good Pocket Primer to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
A Good Pocket Primer to the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Jill Edwards. Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945-1955. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. xviii + 291 pp. $78.00 US (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-822871-4.
Reviewed by David A. Messenger (University of Toronto) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2000)
Kamari Maxine Clarke.
Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 384 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0670-1; $109.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-0575-9.
Marie A. Muschalek. Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 255 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4285-9.
Reviewed by Jason M. Wolfe (Louisiana State University) Published on H-Diplo (February, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Stéfanie von Hlatky, ed.
Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Assessing Domestic and International Strategies.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 224 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5936-3.
Rossen Djagalov.
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds.
Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020. 320 pp.
$35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6; $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00110-2.
Christopher Capozzola.
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century.
New York: Basic Books, 2020. 480 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5416-1827-5.
Reviewed by Guy Emerson Mount (Auburn University) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)