Book Reviews

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RAMSAY MACMULLEN. Corruption and the Decline of Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 319. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Jill Harries

BARRY CUNLIFFE. Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1988. Pp. xii, 243. £19.95. Reviewed by K.R. Bradley

JOHN H. PRYOR. Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 238. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Richard W. Unger

JOHN WILKINSON, ed. and trans.) with JOYCE HILL and W.F. RYAN. Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099–1185. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1988. Pp. xi, 372. £16.00. Reviewed by Donald E. Queller

FREDERICK W. MOTE and DENIS TWITCHETT, eds. The Cambridge History of China: Volume VII: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part I. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xix, 976. $110.00 (US). Reviewed by Edwin G. Pulleyblank

N.J. WILLIAMS. The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550–1590. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 321.$64.00 (US). Reviewed by M. Tolmie

M.S. ANDERSON. War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618–1789. Leicester: Leicester University Press, in association with Fontana Paperbacks, dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. 239. £17.50. Reviewed by J.R. Jones

P.J. MARSHALL. The New Cambridge History of India: II, 2 : Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India 1740–1828. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 195. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Ainslie T. Embree

J.C.D. CLARK, ed. The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742–1763. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 352. £30.00. Reviewed by Ragnhild Hatton

CHARLES W. INGRAO. The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 1760–1785. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 240. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Bassford

JOHN T. ALEXANDER. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 418. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Walter M. Pintner

JOHN R. ELTING. Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grand Armée. New York: The Free Press (Macmillan), 1988. Pp. xiv, 769. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder

RAYMOND EVANS, KAY SAUNDERS, and KATHRYN CRONIN. Race Relations in Colonial Queensland: A History of Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1988. Pp. xix, 450. $24.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Robert A. Huttenback.

KAREL DURMAN. The Time of the Thunderer: Mikhail Katkov, Russian Nationalist Extremism and the Failure of the Bismarckian System, 1871–1887. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp. 609. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by R.J. Crampton

MICHAEL RYWKTN, ed. Russian Colonial Expansion to 1917. London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. Pp. xvi, 274. £30. Reviewed by Alan Bodger

STEPHEN J. HARRIS. Canadian Brass: The Making of a Professional Army, 1860–1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp. x, 271. $30.00 (CAN). Reviewed by P. J. Taggart

TIMOTHY MITCHELL. Colonising Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 218. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Helen Anne B. Rivlin

ZDZISLAW MUSIALIK. General Weygand and the Battle of the Vistula 1920, ed. A.J. Bohdanowicz. London: J. Pilsudski Institute of Research, 1987. Pp. 146. £6.50. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley

MICHAEL DUNNE. The United States and the World Court, 1920–1935. London: Pinter Publishers, 1988. Pp. viii, 306. £30. Reviewed by Alexander DeConde

MARCO CARYNNYK, LUBOMYR Y. LUCIUK, and BOHDAN S. KORDAN, eds. The Foreign Office and the Famine: British Documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932–1933. Kingston, Ont; Vestal, N.Y.: The Limestone Press, 1988. Pp. 1xi, 493. $42.50 (US), cloth; $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Richard K. Debo

PETER HAYES. Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xxviii, 411. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

HARTMUT SCHUSTEREIT. Vabanque: Hitlers Angriff auf die Sowjetunion 1941 als Versuch, durch den Sieg im Osten den Westen zu bezwingen. Herford and Bonn: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn, 1988. Pp. 184. DM 39.80. Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

JERZY W. BOREJSZA. Antyslawizm Adolfa Hitlera. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1988. Pp. 152. (Zl.350). Reviewed by Piotr S. Wandycz

ERNST TOPITSCH. Stalin's War: A Radical New Theory of the Origins of the Second World War, trans. A. and B.E. Taylor. London: Fourth Estate, 1987. Pp. 152. £12.95. Reviewed by Teddy J. Uldricks

WALDO HEINRICHS. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.x, 279. $21.95 (US). Reviewed by David Mayers

MONTY NOAM PENKOWER. The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 429. $16.50 (US). Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen

YITZHAK ARAD. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.Pp.437. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John S. Conway

FRANK A. NINKOVICH. Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. Pp. xv, 201. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg

MARTIN SICKER. The Strategy of Soviet Imperialism: Expansion in Eurasia. New York: Praeger, 1988. Pp. 172. $37.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Dukes

PETER WEILER. British Labour and the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 431. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Larry L. Witherell

MELANEE BILLINGS-YUN. Decision against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 199. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert A. Divine

JAMES A. BILL. The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 520. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Bruce R. Kuniholm

JOHN W. LIMBERT. Iran: At War with History. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 186. $30.50 (US). Reviewed by Bruce R. Kuniholm

DAVID D. NEWSOM. Diplomacy and the American Democracy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 226. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan

STROBE TALBOTT. The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Pp. xvii, 416. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by David Mayers

ROY LICKLIDER. Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon: The Experience of Five Industrial Nations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 343. $38.50 (US). Reviewed by Stephen Duguid

EVAN LUARD. Conflict and Peace in the Modern International System: A Study of the Principles of International Order, 2d rev. ed. London: Macmillan Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 318. £14.95; Reviewed by Melvin Small

PAUL K. HUTH. Extended Deterrence and the Prevention of War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 227. $25.00 (US); Reviewed by Melvin Small

WILLIAM MARK HABEEB. Power and Tactics in International Negotiations: How Weak Nations Bargain with Strong Nations. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 168. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Melvin Small