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LAWHENCE S. KAPLAN. The United States and NATO: The Formative Years. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Pp. 276. $30.00 (US) cloth; $12.00 (US) paper. Reviewed by Robert J. Mcmahon

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. Being Had: Historians, Evidence and the Irish in North America. Port Credit, Ontario: PJD. Meany Publishers, 1985. Pp. 243. $45.00 (Can.). Reviewed by Forrest McDonald

HENRYK PASZKDIWICZ. The Rise of Moscow's Power, trans. P.S. Falla. New York: East European Monographs, 1983. Pp. 530. No price available. Reviewed by Paul Bushkovitch

LARRY H. ADDINGTON. The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. xiv, 318. $29.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul Kennedy

JAN KARSKI. The Great Powers and Poland 1910–1945: From Versailles to Yalta. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1985. Pp. 697. $39.75 (US). Reviewed by Piotr S. Wandycz

STEPHEN ALEXANDER FORTUNE. Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce, 1650–1750. Florida: University of Florida Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 244. $18.00 (US). Reviewed by A.P. Thornton

PAUL M. KENNEDY. The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1983. Pp. xxx, 405. $27.00 (US); R.B. WERNHAM. After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe 1588–1595. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xxi, 613. $64.00 (US). Reviewed by Daniel A. Bauoh

GERALD K. HAINES. A Reference Guide to United States Department of State Special Files. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xliv, 393. $49·95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey S. Smith

BARRY M. GOUGH. Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846–1820. Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press, 1984. Pp. 256. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by James A. Boutiuer

EDWINA S. CAMPBELL. Consultation and Consensus in NATO: Implementing The Canadian Article. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1985. Pp. 209. No price available. Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan

JEFFREY PAUL VON ARX. Progress and Pessimism: Religion, Politics and History in Late Nineteenth Century Britain. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 233. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Asa Brioos

AKABY NASSBIAN. Britain and the Armenian Question, 1915–1923. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm Ltd., 1984. Pp. 294. £18.95. Reviewed by Allan Cunningham

TINA STTEFEL. The Intellectual Revolution in Twelfth-Century Europe. London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985. Pp. 117. £14.95. Reviewed by Donald E. Queller

GERALD J. BENDER, JAMES S. COLEMAN, AND RICHARD L. SKLAR, eds. African Crisis Areas and US. Foreign Policy. Los Angeles: African Studies Center, Center for International Strategic Affairs, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985. Pp. 373. $40 (US). Reviewed by L.H. Gann

WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Pp. 223. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Philip S. Khoury

PETER CLARK, ed. The European Crisis of the isgos: Essays in Comparative History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985. Pp. xi, 324. $33.50 (US). Reviewed by David E. Underdown

JACOB TOURY. Judische Textilunternehmer in Baden-Wurttemberg, 1683–1938. Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1984. Pp. xiv, 294. 148 DM. Reviewed by Michael H. Kater

PETER DUIGNAN AND L.H. GANN. The United States and Africa: A History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 450. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by Robert O. Collins

HANS s. PAWLISCH. Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 244. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Hiram Morgan

KEITH M. WILSON. The Policy of the Entente: Essays on the Determinants of British Foreign Policy, 1904–1914. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 199. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by R.J. Crampton

PHIIXIP A. BUCKNER. The Transition to Responsible Government: British Policy in British North America, 1815–1850. Westport, Conn, and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 358. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by James Sturgis

PAUL DAVID NELSON. Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 368. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Ian Mugridge

ROBERT w. JOHANNSEN. To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 363. $ 25.00 (US). Reviewed by Ted G. Hinckley

DONALD D. HORWARD, ed. Napoleonic Military History: A Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986. Pp. 689. $74.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles John Fedorak

WESLEY K. WARK. The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933–1939. London and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 304. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Patrick Beesly

IAN KERSHAW. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. London: Edward Arnold, 1985. Pp. x, 164. $24.95 (US); WILLIAM CARR. Poland to Pearl Harbor: The Making of the Second World War. London: Edward Arnold, 1895. Pp. viii, 183. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Roger Fletcher

DEBORAH WELCH LARSON. Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 380. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by J. Garry Clifford

J.M. WAOSTAFF. The Evolution of Middle Eastern Landscapes: An Outline to AD 1840. Groom Helm Ltd., 1985, Pp. 350. £25.00. Reviewed by Peter Beaumont

FRANK AKER. October 1973: The Arab Israeli War. Hamden, Conn.: The Shoe String Press Inc., 1985. $19.50 (US). Reviewed by Allan Cunningham