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Contemporary Review archives from February 2000
AFRICA: BUILDING ON HOPES?
February 1, 2000... AFRICA has experienced numerous changes during the last century. Some were progressive, others were setbacks. Colonialism brought about fundamental changes both economically and socially. The Cold War wrought changes in very profound ways -...
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ISRAELI LABOUR MOVEMENT: PART ONE.
February 1, 2000... THIS is the story of the Israeli Labour Movement (ILM), which for about 70 years was a great socialist movement of a special brand. And as Socialist movements come and go in our world, this was quite a unique one. It 'was', because it is no...
CROWDED OUT: AMERICAN POLITICAL CONVENTIONS: PART TWO.
February 1, 2000... IN 1996 discipline was evident from both parties at their respective conventions. Security was tight, convention sites were guarded, and surrounded by clear space. In spite of Senator Dole's unbeatable margin established early in the primary...
WHO.(Poem)
February 1, 2000... Who despairs of content may be content with despair;
Who lives in hope must hope to live;
Who is friend to all is not all friend;
Who boasts of honour may not honour the boast;
Who assumes he is correct cannot correct what he...
JAPAN'S NEW TACTICS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
February 1, 2000... FOR Japan, 1998 was the 130th anniversary of the beginning of the Meiji Era. At this time Emperor Mutsuhito, bynamed Meiji for his reign, presided over the destruction of the old Tokugawa shogunate, whereby Japan had been governed by shogun...
GM FOODS IN PERSPECTIVE: PART TWO.
February 1, 2000... THE UK Commotion on GM Foods
THE European Union accepted the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, and 2,000 hectares of GM maize were planted in France in 1988. Yet, during 1999 the world watched with perplexity the furore that...
THE AMBITION OF EUROPE.
February 1, 2000... WAR has only one cause, and it is not twentieth century nationalism, nor is it national identity. The cause of all conflict is ambition, and of war a single variety of ambition, examined in detail below. In brief, ambition is a sufficient...
EARTH FIRST AND THEN WHAT?(Review)
February 1, 2000... Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement. Derek Wall. Routledge. [pounds]50.00 h.b. and [pounds]15.99 p.b. 219 pages. ISBN 0-415-19063-0 h.b. and 0-415-19064-9 p.b.
This is a very odd book, a very odd book indeed. It is the first, to this...
REPORTING THE THIRD REICH.(Review)
February 1, 2000... This is Berlin. William L. Shirer. Hutchinson. [pounds]20.00. 450 pages. ISBN 0-09-180104- 4. The Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945. Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov. Pimlico. [pounds]10.00. p.b. 332 pages. ISBN 0-7126-6580-3.
Among the ever-growing...
MESSIANIC REVOLUTIONS PAST AND PRESENT.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium. David S. Katz and Richard H. Popkin. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pounds]18.99.303 pages. ISBN 0-713-99383-9.
Considerable emphasis has been given in...
BRAVERY AMIDST THE LANDMINES.(Review)
February 1, 2000... One Step Beyond. Chris Moon. Macmillan Publishers. [pounds]16.99. 388 pages. ISBN 0-333-74051-3.
Courage comes in many guises. The man who is awarded a VC for action in the heat of battle, shows but one form. A meeting some years ago with...
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI, MOHAMMED'S ZEALOT.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah. Baqer Moin. I.B. Tauris. [pounds]24.95. 352 pages. ISBN 1-85043-128-0.
Ayatollah Khomeini, the political and religious zealot, who turned Iran into a militant Islamic republic, still casts a dark shadow over...
HOW WE GOT MODERN ENGLISH.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume IV 1776-1997. Suzanne Romaine, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]80.00/US$ 125.00. 783 pages. ISBN 0-521-26477-4.
This fourth volume in Cambridge's six-volume history of the...
THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.
February 1, 2000... PIMLICO have recently published a variety of excellent biographies. The first is Richard Osborne's Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music ([pounds]15.00. 851 pages. ISBN 0-7126-6465-3). This massive biography was first published in hardback in...
The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers. Ted Honderich, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds]10.99. 288 pages. ISBN 0-19-823861-4. The twenty-eight short essays collected here were first published in The Oxford Companion to...
Penguin Audiobooks.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Penguin Audiobooks have recently released tapes of two books that have become extremely popular. The first is Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm ([pounds]8.99. Two cassettes. ISBN 0140867651) and here the three hour abridgment is read with great...
Gillray Observed: The Earliest Account of his Caricatures in 'London und Paris'.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Gillray Observed: The Earliest Account of his Caricatures in 'London und Paris'. Christiane Banerji and Diana Donald, translators and editors. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]45.OO/US$74.95. 272 pages. ISBN 0-521-58075-7. Interest in...
The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, 1950-1953.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, 1950-1953. Michael Hickey. [pounds]25.00. John Murray. 400 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5559-0. The author is a well established writer on military history and has produced hooks on the 'forgotten army' (Slim...
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. Michael F. Holt. Oxford University Press. [pounds]32.50. US$55.00. 1248 pages. ISBN 0-19505544-6. To most people with an above average knowledge...
Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon -- Aryan Fascism.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon -- Aryan Fascism. J. A. Mangan, editor. Frank Cass. [pounds]45.00/US$45.00. 176 pages. ISBN 0-7146-4954-6. This volume is part of Cass's 'Sport in the Global Society' series which analyses...
Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues and Treachery.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues and Treachery. Hugh Douglas. Sutton Publishing. [pounds]19.99/US$34.95. 269 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1425-4. Hugh Douglas has made a reputation for himself as an expert on Scottish history with special attention to...
Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel. Thames and Hudson. [pounds]19.95. 208 pages. ISBN 0-500-005095-3. This latest 'chronicle' from Thames and Hudson is devoted to the rulers of Israel...
High Life Low Morals: The Duel that Shook Stuart Society.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... High Life Low Morals: The Duel that Shook Stuart Society. Victor Slater. John Murray. [pounds]19.99. 332 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5719-4. The duel between Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton in 1712 gained literary, as well as historical fame, in...
Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945. Catherine Edwards, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]40.00/US$64.95. 279 pages. ISBN 0-521-59197-X. The domination which Greek and Roman literature and archaeology...
The Life of Nelson.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Life of Nelson. Robert Southey. Constable. [pounds]16.99. 371 pages. ISBN 0-09-479810-9. Robert Southey's famous biography of Horatio, Lord Nelson, was first published in 1813, eight years after the hero's death at Trafalgar. It immediately...
Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation. Rumina Sethi. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pounds]40.00. 221 pages. ISBN 0-19-818339-9. This is a study about the 'construction of models of nationalist ideology in the cultural...
The Penguin Book of War: Great Military Writings.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Penguin Book of War: Great Military Writings. John Keegan, editor. Viking. [pounds]25.00. 492 pages. ISBN 0-67085299-6. In this anthology the much respected writer on war has collected an enormously wide range of writers on warfare, from...
The European Union as a Global Actor.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The European Union as a Global Actor. Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler. Routledge. [pounds]60.00 h.b. and [pounds]18.99 p.b. 316 pages. ISBN 0-415-150552-3 h.b. and 0-415-15053-1 p.b. Supporters of the European Union as a new, de facto...