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Book Reviews

James Belich: A History of the New Zealanders*
Making Peoples; Paradise Reforged
Judith Binney: The Shaping of History*
Essays from The New Zealand Journal of History
Robert Cribb, Audrey Kahin: Historical Dictionary of Indonesia
- a broadly useful reference work
Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Cambridge Illustrated History of China*
- an attractive, accessible, and scholarly general history
John L. Esposito: Islam*
The Straight Path
Mikiso Hane: Premodern Japan
A Historical Survey
Christopher Hill: The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714*
- a broad-ranging history of 17th century England
Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger: The Invention of Tradition
- essays on the recent construction of symbolic and ceremonial traditions
R.A. Houston, W.W.J. Knox: The New Penguin History of Scotland
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
J. Hussain: A History of the Peoples of Pakistan
Towards Independence
Gunnar Karlsson: The History of Iceland*
- from settlement to the present
Terry G. Lacy: Ring of Seasons
Iceland - Its Culture and History
James W. Laine: Shivaji
Hindu King in Islamic India
Mark Mazower: The Balkans*
- beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
Colin McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of African History
Robert McGhee: The Last Imaginary Place*
A Human History of the Arctic World
Elaine McKay: Studies in Indonesian History
Kenneth McNaught: The Penguin History of Canada
- politicians, parties, wars, constitutional changes, ...
James A. Millward: Eurasian Crossroads
A History of Xinjiang
F.W. Mote: Imperial China 900-1800*
- with a focus on political institutions and systems of government
Milton Osborne: The Mekong
Turbulent past, uncertain future
Richard Pankhurst: The Ethiopians
A History
Geoffrey Parker: The Military Revolution*
Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
John J. Reilly: Spengler's Future
- an exploration of the cycles of world history
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia
- Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russia
George Rudé: The French Revolution*
- a modern marxist interpretation
J.L. Salcedo-Bastardo: Bolivar
A Continent and its Destiny
Keith Sinclair: A History of New Zealand
- a classic, with five editions since 1959
Svat Soucek: A History of Inner Asia*
- from the coming of Islam
D. J. Steinberg: In Search of Southeast Asia
A Modern History
Tony Swain: A Place for Strangers
Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
Nicholas Tarling: The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia
- a genuinely regional approach, with 20 chapters by specialists
Stein Tønnesson: Vietnam 1946
How the War Began
Jaime Vicens Vives: Approaches to the History of Spain
- short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war