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Book Reviews

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Reviews of Books

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LEVIN. Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 228. $39-95 (US); R. J. WALSH. Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxxiv, 478. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Toby Osborne MICHAEL A. PALMER. Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 377. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by William S. Cormack SUSANNA BURGHARTZ, ed. Inszenierte Welten: Die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590-1630. Staging New Worlds: De Brys' Illustrated Travel Reports, 1590-1630. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2004. Pp. 199. €54.50. Reviewed by Elmer Kolfin ARTHUR JAY KLINGHOFFER. The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xv, 192. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Patricia Seed C. PATTERSON GIERSCH. Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 308. $49-95 (US).Reviewed by Joanna Waley-Cohen N. A. M. RODGER. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815. New York, NY and London: W. W. Norton, 2005. Pp. lxv, 907. $45.00 (US). Reviewed Daniel A. Baugh RAYMOND HYLTON. Ireland's Huguenots and Their Refuge, 1662-1745: An Unlikely Haven. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 226. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Ruth Whelan MARIEKE DE GOEDE. Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii, 235. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by JU Best ROBIN LAW. Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving ‘Port’, 1727-l892. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 308. $49.95 (US), cloth; $29-95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Davod Eltis COLIN G. CALLOWAY. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 219. $35.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Burnard PAUL D'ARCY. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 292. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by I. C. Campbell FRANCIS M. CARROLL. The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796-1996. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 281. $29.95 (US), paper.Reviewed by Diane Kirby ERIC BURIN. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 223. $101.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Manisha Sinha MICHAEL L. TATE. Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 328. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David La Vere ROBERT HOLLAND and DIANA MARKIDES. The British and the Hellenes: Struggles for Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1850-1960. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 266. $165.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert Frazier DAVID G. ATWILL. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Evelyn S. Rawski ULRICH PALLUA. Eurocentrism, Racism, Colonialism in the Victorian and Edwardian Age: Changing Images of Africa(ns) in Scientific and Literary Texts. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2005. Pp. 263. €39.00. Reviewed by Antoinette Burton HAROLD L. PLATT. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform, of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 628. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Helen Meller TIMOTHY H. PARSONS. Race, Resistance, and the. Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 318. $59-95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Youé MANUS I. MIDLARSKY. The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 463. $28.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Howard Adelman VOLKER R. BERGHAHN. Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 163. $24.95 (US); TOM BUCHANAN. Europe's Troubled Peace, l945-2000. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. xiii, 356. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Aviel Roshwald MATTHEW S. SELIGMANN. Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 272. $139.50 (CDN). Reviewed by David French JAY WINTER and ANTOINE PROST. The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 250. $28.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gary Sheffield MATTHEW HUGHES and WILLIAM J. PHILPOTT. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Mac-millan, 2005. Pp. vi, 108. $19.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Elizabeth Greenhalgh JOHN BROOKS. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle oj Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiv, 321. $115.00 (US). Reviewed by Greg Kennedy NICOLETTA F. GULLACE. ‘The Blood of Our Sons’: Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 284. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Reznick MICHAEL KELLOGG. The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 327. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by István Deák JONATHAN ROSENBERG. HOW Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen GEORGE MCKAY. Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 357. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Lewis Porter RICHARD BESSEL. Nazism and War. London: Orion Books, 2005. Pp. 276. £7.99, paper; KIRAN KLAUS PATEL. Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, trans. Thomas Dunlap. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 446. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Thad Allen MANUELA A. WILLIAMS. Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940. London and New York, NY: Rout-ledge, 2006. Pp. xii, 238. $120.00 (US).Reviewed by Alexander De Grand CORNELIS A. VAN MINNEN. Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xvi, 352. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Bert Zeeman EVAN MAWDSLEY. Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945. London: Hodder Arnold; dist. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 502. $66.50 (CDN).Reviewed by Martin Kitchen ROBERT L. MCLAUGHLIN and SALLY E. PARRY. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema (luring World War II. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. ix, 357. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Gregory D. Black KEITH D. MCFARLAND and DAVID L. ROLL. Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 452. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Dunar PRUE TORNEY-PARLICKI. Behind the News: A Biography of Peter Russo. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2005; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. xii, 412. $35-95, paper.Reviewed by David Day BARAK KUSHNER. The Thought War: Japanese, Imperial Propaganda. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 242. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Duus MARTIN F. AUGER. Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Southern Quebec, 1940-46. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 227. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Chris Madsen ROBERT E. HERZSTEIN. Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 346. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by T. Christopher Jespersen ADAM CHAPNICK. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 210. $29.95 (CDN), paper.Reviewed by Patrick H. Brennan DEBORAH KISATSKY. The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 237. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Jussi M. Hanhimäki ROBERT L. TIGNOR. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 315. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes BRIAN ANGUS MCKENZIE. Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. xii, 259. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth Moure RADU IOANID. The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain between Romania and Israel. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. Pp. xviii, 217. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Dov B. Lungu STEPHEN G. RABE. US Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Sheinin ODD ARNE WESTAD. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 484. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Borstelmann MICHAEL D. STEVENSON, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: XXV: 1957-1958, Part II. Ottawa, ON: Department of External Affairs, 2004. Pp. xlii, 1,103. $119-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen DIMITRY ANASTAKIS. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 285. $29-95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Duncan McDowall ROBERT K. BRIGHAM. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xiv, 178. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark W. McLeod MAURICIO SOLAÚN. US Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua. Lincoln, NB and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 391. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Nancy Mitchell ELI NATHANS. The Politics of Citizenship in Germany: Ethnicity, Utility, and Nationalism. Oxford and New York, NY: Berg, 2004. 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Chen Siqing, “Deeper-level Analysis of the Reasons for the U.S. Financial Crisis and Its Lessons for China's Banking Industry,” Studies of International Finance 12, (2008); Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama, “The Post-Washington Consensus: Development After the Crisis,” Foreign Affairs 90, no. 2 (March/April 2011): p. 3. 18. Edward Wong and Natasha Singer, “Currency Agreement for Japan and China,” New York Times December 27, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/business/global/china-and-japan-in-currency-agreement.html; “China and Australia in $31bn Currency Swap,” Financial Times, May 22, 2012, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4b6c4ab6-7404-11e1-bcec-00144feab49a.html#axzz2QeB9zdmx; “China and Brazil in $30bn Currency Swap Agreement,” BBC News, June 22 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21949615. 19. Kosuke Takahashi, “Japan and China Bypass US in Direct Currency Trade,” The Asia–Pacific Journal 24, no. 3 (June 11 2012); Chin and Wang, “Debating the International Currency System,” p. 13. 20. The word “relative” is crucial. The most likely scenario is that the dollar will remain the world's most widely used international currency, with its use eroding to something like a “first among equals” status. But even that relative contraction in its international use will have consequences. 21. See Benjamin Cohen, “The Macrofoundations of Monetary Power,” in David M. Andrews, ed., International Monetary Power (Cornell University Press, 2006). 22. Susan Strange, “Finance, Information and Power,” Review of International Studies 16, no. 3 (July 1990): 259–74. 23. In theory, with floating rates, the “hangover” can be ignored and excess currency “mopped up” by depreciation. 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James Thomas Emmerson, The Rhineland Crisis, 7 March 1936: A Study in Multilateral Diplomacy, (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1977), p. 78; Stephen Schuker, “France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936,” French Historical Studies 14, no. 3 (Spring 1936), pp. 304, 330, 334, 335. 29. Daniel Drezner, “Bad Debts: Assessing China's Financial Influence in Great Power Politics,” International Security 34, no. 2 (2009). Additional informationNotes on contributorsJonathan KirshnerJonathan Kirshner is Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy at Cornell University, 2012–2013 World Politics Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and author of American Power After the Financial Crisis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming)

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