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Book Reviews

Paul Avrich: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
- fifty contemporary documents
Sebastian Balfour, Paul Preston: Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century
- from 1898 to Felipe Gonzalez
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
Stephen Brooke: Reform and Reconstruction
Britain after the war, 1945-51
David P. Chandler, M.C. Ricklefs: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia
Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. Legge
Robert Cribb, Audrey Kahin: Historical Dictionary of Indonesia
- a broadly useful reference work
Robert Cribb: Historical Atlas of Indonesia**
- learned and lavish
Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Cambridge Illustrated History of China*
- an attractive, accessible, and scholarly general history
John L. Esposito: Islam*
The Straight Path
Misha Glenny: The Balkans 1804-1999*
Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
Tulio Halperín Donghi: The Contemporary History of Latin America
- politics and economics from the early 19th century
Mikiso Hane: Modern Japan
- from the Meiji restoration to the economic miracle
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
Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes*
The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
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
Audrey Kahin: Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution**
- an unusually appealing essay collection on 1945-50
Audrey Kahin: Rebellion to Integration
West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity
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
Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought
Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Mark Mazower: The Balkans*
- beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
Robert S. McElvaine: The Great Depression
America, 1929-1941
Colin McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of African History
Elaine McKay: Studies in Indonesian History
Kenneth McNaught: The Penguin History of Canada
- politicians, parties, wars, constitutional changes, ...
Martin Meredith: The Fate of Africa
A History of 50 Years of Independence
F.W. Mote: Imperial China 900-1800*
- with a focus on political institutions and systems of government
Tekeste Negash: Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941
Policies, Praxis and Impact
Tim Niblock: Saudi Arabia
Power, Legitimacy and Survival
Claudia Orange: The Treaty of Waitangi
- its 1840 making and subsequent history
Milton Osborne: The Mekong
Turbulent past, uncertain future
Richard Pankhurst: The Ethiopians
A History
Ilan Pappe: A History of Modern Palestine*
One Land, Two Peoples
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
Morris Rossabi: Modern Mongolia
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
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
Gebru Tareke: Ethiopia: Power and Protest
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
Nicholas Tarling: The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia
- a genuinely regional approach, with 20 chapters by specialists
Lawrence R. Tenzer: The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War
A New Look at the Slavery Issue
Samuel Totten, et al.: Century of Genocide*
Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
Charles Tripp: A History of Iraq
- politics from the Ottomans to Saddam Hussein
Steve Tsang: A Modern History of Hong Kong
- a broad-ranging and readable account
Jaime Vicens Vives: Approaches to the History of Spain
- short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war
Lawrence Ziring: Pakistan in the Twentieth Century
A Political History