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
- 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
- Christopher Clark: Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- Barry Eichengreen: The Populist Temptation
Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
- Cameron Forbes: Under the Volcano
The Story of Bali
- 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
- 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
- Michael Howard: Empires, Nations and Wars
- lectures and essays on political and military history
- Tony Judt: Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
- 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
- Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought
Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
- Robert S. McElvaine: The Great Depression
America, 1929-1941
- Martin Meredith: The Fate of Africa
A History of 50 Years of Independence
- Luuk Van Middelaar: The Passage to Europe*
How a Continent Became a Union
- Rana Mitter: A Bitter Revolution
- China's May Fourth Movement and its legacy
- 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
- 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
- Morris Rossabi: Modern Mongolia
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
- George Rudé: The French Revolution*
- a modern marxist interpretation
- Ronald Grigor Suny: The Structure of Soviet History
Essays and Documents
- Gebru Tareke: Ethiopia: Power and Protest
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
- Stein Tønnesson: Vietnam 1946
How the War Began
- 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
- Lawrence Ziring: Pakistan in the Twentieth Century
A Political History
- Erik J. Zürcher: Turkey: A Modern History*
- late Ottomans, Young Turks, and a troubled democracy
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