Contemporary Review articles from August 2003

Contemporary Review archives from August 2003

Korean reunification.
August 1, 2003... THE question of Korean unification is perhaps the one that has been discussed most in Korean politics in the last few decades without a plausible answer. Since the search for solutions and answers on various issues and questions involved in the...

International law: another casualty of the Iraq war?
August 1, 2003... GEORGE W. BUSH and Tony Blair see themselves as the policemen of an international legal and moral order. They appear not to distinguish between legality and morality, which is fine if one happens to agree with their morality, but very...

The Israeli-Polish dialogue.
August 1, 2003... THERE is something unique about the Jewish-Israeli-Polish connection, an emotionally charged connection. Poland is the place where about half of the world's Jews were murdered, but it is also a country marked by a thousand-year history of...

The sound of the Victorians.(Compact Disc Notices)(Sound Recording Review)
August 1, 2003... If you have ever yearned to be at a gathering of Eminent Victorians, you have a vicarious treat with two superb CDs from the Sound Archive of the British Library. Both feature recordings of poets and writers born in the nineteenth century....

Australia--one land: two peoples.
August 1, 2003... NATURE periodically reminds Australians just how fragile their hold on the land is. The country's Indigeneous Peoples have always had a keen awareness of this but the Europeans have had a greater confidence in their ability to tame the land....

Wind power in Eastern Europe.
August 1, 2003... WIND Power is generating a torrent of investor interest in Eastern Europe. It may offer a viable economic solution to a notoriously energy deficient region desperately seeking to reduce fossil fuel use and Greenhouse gas emissions. Hungary and...

Images from a century of aviation.
August 1, 2003... THIS year sees the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight on 17 December, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It was a breakthrough the world of light engineering had long been gearing up for. The internal combustion...

Women in the United Arab Emirates.
August 1, 2003... 'THE achievements of women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in such a short time has made me happy and convinced me that what we planted yesterday will today start to bear fruit'. These words by the enlightened Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al...

The vanishing man of letters.
August 1, 2003... Part One ALL the twenty-first century instruments agree that in this cybernetic age that quaint Victorian artefact, that wily old literary bird, the Man of Letters, has virtually joined the inept dodo and misfortunate great auk, along with...

The British discovery of things Japanese.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Japan and Britain after 1859: Creating Bridges. Olive Checkland. Routledge. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. 237 pages. ISBN 0-7007-1747-1. All over Britain, antique shops and market stalls display a range of Japanese art objects which reflect that...

Giles Radice and his friends.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Friends & Rivals. Giles Radice. Little, Brown. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. 376 pages. ISBN 0-316-85547-2. There is a tone of melancholic elegy about Giles Radice's Friends and Rivals. Three Labour MPs, Tony Crosland, Roy Jenkins, and Denis...

Fiction in modern Britain.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... On Modern British Fiction. Zachary Leader, editor. Oxford University Press. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 319 pages. ISBN 0-19-924932-6. As Zachary Leader explains, this book emerged from a conference held in 2000 at the Huntingdon Library in...

The impact of Hitler's refugees on British life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The Hitler Emigres: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism. Daniel Snowman. Chatto & Windus. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-701-16880-3. British cultural life is sometimes disdainfully described as 'insular', contrary to...

Understanding Hamlet through the soliloquies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Modern Hamlets and their Soliloquies. Mary Z. Maher. University of Iowa Press. Expanded Edition. 15.50 [pounds sterling]. p.b. ISBN 0-87745-826-X. 'Am I a coward?' asked David Warner's Hamlet of the theatre audience. 'Yes!' called out a...

Roy Jenkins swan song.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Twelve Cities: A Memoir. Roy Jenkins, Macmillan. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. 249 pages. ISBN 1-4050-0031-7. Roy Jenkins was a leading figure in British and European politics of the second half of the twentieth century. Chancellor of the...

New and noteworthy.
August 1, 2003... Eric Kennington remains one of Britain's most influential twentieth century sculptors. In The Sculpture of Eric Kennington (60.00 [pounds sterling]), published by LUND HUMPHRIES in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, the author,...

The world of paperbacks.
August 1, 2003... PIMLICO has recently republished Piers Brendon's Eminent Edwardians: Four Figures who Defined their Age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell (12.50 [pounds sterling]) which was first published in 1979. Mr. Brendon seeks to illustrate...