Contemporary Review articles from July 2000

Contemporary Review archives from July 2000

A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR.
July 1, 2000... WE are pleased to announce that starting with this, the 277th volume of Contemporary Review, the size of the journal will grow by eight pages. The new 64-page journal -- free from the intrusion and influence of advertising -- will allow us...

AUSTRALIA'S ASIA POLICY.
July 1, 2000... AS the twenty-first century begins to unfold, Australia is facing some important political and economic questions. These are about the future directions of Australia's multi-cultural society, its place in the world and region, and especially,...

LATIN AMERICA AFTER THE 1998 MARKET TUMBLE.
July 1, 2000... THE onset of globalisation was a daunting time for Latin America which some countries met by forming Mercosur (see last month's issue of Contemporary Review). In the 1980s most countries were crippled by an economic depression that showed no...

FAMILY VALUES.(Poem)
July 1, 2000... My mother screws the 'Social', My father traffics crack, My sister offers massage, My brother deals in smack. My grandma works the 'plastic', My grandad is a fence, My cousin Beth's an escort, My cousin Darren...

TUNISIA'S ANDALUSIAN HERITAGE.
July 1, 2000... IT was back in the mid-1980s that I drove to [Qal.sup.c]at el-Andles in search of the remains of the Spanish Muslims who had been forcefully evicted from the Iberian peninsula. Stopping our auto, I asked a passerby, 'I want to speak to someone...

FIRST BIRD.(Poem)
July 1, 2000... Ages back In the beginning of the world When all was raging chaos And the only sounds Were the upheaval of mountains, The clashing of continents, The crashing of the waves of the eternal sea Upon the bleak shores...

THE CHANGE OF POWER IN ECUADOR.
July 1, 2000... THERE was an outbreak of democracy in the 1990s and so that was a bad decade for military rule worldwide. But the new millennium began abruptly in Ecuador, with the overthrow of President Jamil Mahuad in January. This was the first military...

DARMSTADT CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF ART NOUVEAU.
July 1, 2000... FEW visitors to central Germany would include Darmstadt as part of their itinerary. Just south of that gigantic beehive that is Frankfurt, and slightly off the majestic river Rhine, it is a place where one might easily miss an important chapter...

RUSSIA OPENS ITS INLAND WATERWAYS.
July 1, 2000... A GROUP of Russian and French shipping interests have established an environment-friendly navigation business connecting Moscow with Paris and several other key West European ports. The cargo service may well prove to be a forerunner of a...

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AND ENGLAND.
July 1, 2000... IN his later years James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was considered America's major man of letters of the age. However, posterity has been less kind to him. Today he is little read and is generally regarded as not being in quite the same league...

WOOLLY ADVERTISING RHYMES.
July 1, 2000... WHEN an Englishman dies abroad and has on him no other means of identification, a search through his pockets will usually reveal a letter to the Editor of The Times -- or so it is said. Since I retired, I write to The Times perhaps three times...

CREATING THE AMERICAN WORLD.(Review)
July 1, 2000... HOPKINS, MICHAEL F. Acheson: The Secretary of Stare who Created the American World. James Chace. Simon & Schuster. [pound]25.00. 512 pages. ISBN 0-684-80843-9. When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations During the Suez and Falklands...

EUROPE'S GYPSIES UNDER THE NAZIS.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies. Guenter Lewy. Oxford University Press. [pound]17.50/US$30.00. 306 pages. ISBN 0-19-512556-8. Since the end of the Second World War, hundreds of books have been written about the Jewish holocaust....

CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN BRITAIN.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Church and State in the New Millennium. David Holloway. HarperCollins. [pound]15.99. 257 pages. ISBN 0-00-274059-1. David Holloway is a prominent Anglican Evangelical and Vicar of Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne His name and number have long...

GEORGE MEREDITH AND THE PERILS OF MODERNITY.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith. Mervyn Jones. Constable. [pounds]20.00. 311 pages. ISBN 0-09-479810-7. Such is the persuasiveness of Mervyn Jones's presentation of George Meredith as a modern novelist and poet...

CYPRUS: THE UNRESOLVED CRISIS.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion. Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig. I. B. Tauris. [pound]19.95. 270 pages. ISBN 1-86064-439-2. It is twenty-five years since the Greek military dictators staged a coup in...

THE EASTER RISING IN FACT AND FICTION.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Easter Rising. Michael Foy and Brian Barton. Sutton Publishing. [pound]19.99. 244 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1706-7. Dublin, in the spring of 1916, was a haven of peace in a world of war. The Irish were, mostly, happy that Home Rule, though...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.(Review)
July 1, 2000... William Shakespeare: His Life and Work. Anthony Holden. Little, Brown. [pound]20.00. 367 pages. ISBN 0-316-64185-5. 'The Shakespeare mythos' was Samuel Schoenbaum's term for the overgrowth of folklore, semi-reliable anecdote, and...

EDNA O'BRIEN ON JAMES JOYCE.(Review)
July 1, 2000... James Joyce. Edna O'Brien. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. [pound]12.99. 182 pages. ISBN 0-297-84243-9. In this brief biography a distinguished novelist romps through the hectic life of James Joyce (1882-1941). Any biography of him could be...

THE COOK-WRITER EXTRAORDINARY.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Writings at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David. Artemis Cooper. Michael Joseph. [pound]20.00. 352 pages. ISBN 0-7181-42241. It is rare, even now, for many women not to find the words Elizabeth David magical. Her...

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The spoken books is the format through which many people come across great works of literature. In many cases, hearing the text is better than reading it -- this is especially the case with poetry. It is, after all, something of a return to the...

Five Days in London May 1940.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Five Days in London May 1940. John Lukacs. Yale University Press. [pound]12.95. 236 pages. ISBN 0-300-08030-1. The dying days of the twentieth century saw a plethora of books on the Second World War. The one thing most people mention when they...

Marvell: The Writer in Public Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Marvell: The Writer in Public Life. Annabel Patterson. Longman. [pound]60.00 h.b. and [pound]19.99 p.b. 189 pages. ISBN 0-582-35676-8 h.b. and 0-582-35675-X p.b. This title is part of the 'Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library', a collection...

The Catholic Reformation.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Catholic Reformation. Michael A. Mullett. Routledge. [pound]45.00 h.b. and [pound]13.99 p.b. 258 pages. ISBN 0-415-18914-4 h.b. and 0-415-18915-2 p.b. So much has been written on the Reformation by Anglo-American historians that,...

Plague Wars: A True Story of Biological Warfare.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Plague Wars: A True Story of Biological Warfare. Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg. Macmillan. [pound]18.99. 402 pages. ISBN 0-333-71614-0. As a BBC Television journalist, Mr Mangold has earned a reputation for 'investigative reporting'. Jeff...

The Great Exhibition.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Great Exhibition. John R. Davis. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00/US$36.00. 238 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1614-1. The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in Hyde Park, has become a symbol of Victorian selfconfidence and ordered social change. The...

The First Lady Diana: The Life of Lady Diana Spencer.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The First Lady Diana: The Life of Lady Diana Spencer, 1710-1735. Victoria Massey. London House. [pound]20.00. 256 pages. ISBN 1-902809-01-7. Lady Diana Spencer was the grand-daughter of the famous Duke of Marlborough and was raised by his...

Letters Between a Father and Son.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Letters Between a Father and Son. V. S. Naipaul. Gillon Aitken, editor. Little, Brown and Co. [pound]18.99. 333 pages. ISBN 0-316-63988-5. V. S. Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Trinidad and came to England in 1950 to study in Oxford. He...

Railways and the Victorian Imagination.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Railways and the Victorian Imagination. Michael Freeman. Yale University Press. [pound]25.00. 264 pages. ISBN 0-300-07970-2. The development of a national railway system in Britain transformed the countryside, brought some towns to life and...

Italy from the First to the Second Republic.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Italy from the First to the Second Republic. Sondra Z. Koff and Stephen P. Koff. Routledge. [pound]16.99 p.b. 245 pages. ISBN 0-415-19664-7. This book covers 'politics and political behaviour in Italy' between the proclamation of the Italian...

Ben Jonson.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Ben Jonson. Richard Dutton, editor. Longman. [pound]13.99 p.b. 223 pages. ISBN 0-582-21506-4. This volume is part of Longman's 'Critical Readers' series in which a scholar gathers together in one manageable volume the latest literary criticism...

Edward VI.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Edward VI. Jennifer Loach. George Bernard and Penry Williams, editors. Yale University Press. [pound]20.00. 210 pages. ISBN 0-300-07992-3. The Yale 'English Monarch' series aims to give readers political biographies which explain how the...

Blood & Fire: William and Catherine Booth and Their Salvation Army.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Blood & Fire: William and Catherine Booth and Their Salvation Army. Roy Hattersley. Little, Brown and Company. [pound]20.00. 471 pages. ISBN 0-316-85161-2. The great free-for-all that was nineteenth century religious life after 1829 gave birth...

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. John Cornwell. Viking. [pound]20.00/Can$42.00. 430 pages. ISBN 0-670-87620-8. This biographical study is, like so many books being published now, 'secret history'. Everything nowadays is an...

The Essential Claude Monet.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Harry N. Abrams and The Wonderland Press have been cooperating for several years to produce an attractive series of small, introductory books of famous painters called 'The Essential...' Two recently released titles include The Essential...

Napoleon III: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Napoleon III: A Life. Fenton Bresler. HarperCollins. [pound]24.99. 438 pages. ISBN 0-00-255787-8. Napoleon III remains one of the most fascinating characters to have appeared on the European stage in modern history. Under his rule France...

Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ray Moseley. Yale University Press. [pound]19.95. 302 pages. ISBN 0-300-07917-6. Anyone interested in Mussolini's regime inevitably comes across his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, who...

The Freemasons.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The Freemasons. Jasper Ridley. Constable. [pound]20.00. 340 pages. ISBN 0-090-479400-6. The role and power of the Masons in British life have been controversial topics for several years. There has been talk of undue influence behind the scenes,...