Contemporary Review articles from July 2001

Contemporary Review archives from July 2001

CREATING PEACE BETWEEN LEBANON AND ISRAEL.
July 1, 2001... ANY moves towards peace in the Middle East are complex and nowhere is this more the case than in the complicated situation involving Lebanon and Israel for a third party is always involved namely Syria. These complex factors must be understood...

BRAZIL 501.
July 1, 2001... BRAZIL has entered the twenty-first century amid a national identity crisis, just as it celebrates the fifth centenary of its discovery. Brazil's crisis is not simply a matter of the current economic difficulties nor is it due to the long...

THE CONSPIRATORIAL POLITICS OF THABO MBEKI.
July 1, 2001... LAST month the South African President visited Britain. For him the receptions at Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street were no doubt a welcome break from domestic turmoil. In April 2001, the first serious cracks appeared in the previously...

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE CASPIAN OIL PIPELINE.
July 1, 2001... AMONG the major issues where the Bush Administration will have to cope with the Clinton legacy, is the Caspian pipeline project. The State Department invested heavily in a grandiose strategy that has been to press the Caspian countries and...

STERILISATION IN INDIA.
July 1, 2001... THE Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, calls it consciousness-raising. His executive secretary, R. Gopalakrishnan, says it's a gimmick. Firebrand feminist Member of Parliament Shabana Azmi declares it unconstitutional. New population-control...

RUSSIAN NATIONALISM TODAY: THE VIEWS OF ALEXANDER DUGIN.
July 1, 2001... AT a recent meeting of specialists in Slavic Studies, some of the participants began discussing the views of Alexander Dugin, the popular Russian nationalist philosopher. Most of the Russian participants, mostly Westernized liberals, were...

VISITING MEDIAEVAL FRANCE TODAY.
July 1, 2001... DESPITE the global marketplace, satellite television, European integration, and countless other inducements to homogeneity, there is a section of France, the southwest, that steadfastly resists that trend. It retains its mediaeval air in a...

IN SEARCH OF CYRIL CONNOLLY'S GENERATION.
July 1, 2001... THE historian, Sir Steven Runciman was, I think, the last survivor of Cyril Connolly's contemporaries in College at Eton, the schoolboys of Enemies of Promise. Possibly in some distant shire one still remains, but he would need to be almost of...

RESULTS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... The British General Election held on 7 June 2001 resulted in a second landslide victory for the Labour Party of Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Conservative leader, William Hague, resigned immediately after his party's second defeat. There was...

EMPEROR HIROHITO: THE GOD WHO FEL TO EARTH.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Herbert P. Bix. Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. [pound]25.00. 800 pages. ISBN 0-7156-3077-6. Fiction, obfuscation, distortion and perversion surround the life and reign of Hirohito, 124th Emperor of...

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Australia. A Biography of a Nation. Phillip Knightley. Jonathan Cape. [pound]20.00. 373 pages. ISBN 0-224-05006-0. This year the Dominion of Australia celebrates its centenary when the former colonies were united into a single Commonwealth....

SPEAKING IN TONGUES.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Language Death. David Crystal. Cambridge University Press. [pound]12.95 (US$19.95) p.b. 198 pages. ISBN 0-521-65321-5. Nobody knows exactly how many languages are spoken on this planet. Current estimates range from 3,000 to 10,000 -- with a...

THE DIARY OF A TRIBAL TORY.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries, 1935-51. Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society (Camden Fifth Series). Stuart Ball, editor. [pound]40.00. 665 pages. ISBN 0-521-66143-9. ...

SHAKESPEARE AND SEX.(Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems. A. D. Cousins. Longman. [pound]60.00. 227 pages. ISBN 0-582-21513-7. Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are discourses, sequent and complementary, on sex. Venus and Adonis is elegant...

THE WORLD OF PAPERBACHS.(Bibliography)
July 1, 2001... New releases from PIMLICO cover a wide range of subjects. In history there is a reprint of Christopher Hill's Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century ([pound]l2.50). When first...

The cambridge Urban History of Britain. Volume II: 1540-1840.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The cambridge Urban History of Britain. Volume II: 1540--1840. Peter Clark, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pound]90.00. 906 pages. ISBN 0-521-43141-7. This second volume covers the period in which England, if not Britain as a whole,...

Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Bent Flyvbjerg. Steven Sampson, translator. Cambridge University Press. [pound]37.50 (US$54.95) h.b. and [pound]13.95 (US$19.95) p.b. 204 pages. ISBN...

Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah. Tim Mackintosh-Smith. John Murray. [pound]19.00. 351 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5849-2. The search for the 'real Arabia' has fascinated a certain type of Englishman for over a...

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire. David Cannadine. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pound]16.99. 264 pages. ISBN 0-713-99605-8. This latest study of the Empire argues that Britain and British history in the eighteenth, nineteenth...

Dante: A Life in Works.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Dante: A Life in Works. Robert Hollander. Yale University Press. [pound]20.00. 221 pages. ISBN 0-300-08494-3. Professor Hollander is a widely regarded expert on Dante and one of the three translators of a new edition of the Inferno. Readers are...

An American Family: The Kennans.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... An American Family: The Kennans. The First Three Generations. George K. Kennan. W. W. Norton. [pound]17.95 137 pages. ISBN 0-393-05034-3. The author is a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and, when in the State Department, was one of the men who...

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume III 1840-1950.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume III 1840-1950. Martin Daunton, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pound]90.00. 944 pages. ISBN 0-521-41707-4. This volume brings to a conclusion Cambridge's impressive study of British urban...

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A Dictionary of Writers and their Works. Michael Cox. Oxford University Press. [pound]25.00. 666 pages. ISBN 0-19-866249-1. O.U.P. has added to its series of reference works with this latest title which covers over 25,000 works of British,...

The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr Dee.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr Dee. Benjamin Woollet. HarperCollins. [pound]15.99. 394 pages. ISBN 0-00-237139-0. John Dee was in many ways a perfect example of Renaissance Man. He would today be described as a scientist or...

Henry I.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Henry I. C. Warren Hollister and Amanda Clark Frost, editor. Yale University Press. [pound]25.00. 554 pages. ISBN 0-300-08858-2. Yale's 'English Monarchs' series has been an unusual effort: its volumes have varied in size and quality but in...

The Oxford Companion to Western Art.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Hugh Brigstocke, editor. Oxford University Press. [pound]40.00. 820 pages. ISBN 0-19-866203-3. This mammoth undertaking is a replacement volume for the 1970 Oxford Companion to Art, prepared by Harold...

The Mammoth Book of War Correspondents.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Mammoth Book of War Correspondents. Jon E. Lewis, editor. Robinson. [pound]7.99. 622 pages. ISBN 1-84119-182-5. The latest in Robinson's 'mammoth book' series is that devoted to war. Those who have described it best over the past 150 years...

The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-1848.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-1848. Pamela Pilbeam. Longman. [pound]7.99 p.b. 140 pages. ISBN 0582-31210-8. Between the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 and the flight of Louis Philippe in 1848, France had two...

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 3, Twentieth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume III: The Twentieth Century. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Galiman, editors. Cambridge University Press. [pound]60.00 (US$99.95). 1190 pages. ISBN 0-521-55308-3. With the...

Darwin.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Darwin. Philip Appleman, editor. W. W. Norton. [pounds]9.95. 695 pages. ISBN 0-393-95849-3. Norton has brought out a third edition of Prof Appleman's collection of texts and commentary from the works of Charles Darwin, first published in 1970....

Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, vol. 1.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Volume I. Jonathan Bennett. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pound]30.00. 403 pages. ISBN 0-19-825091-6. In this first volume Professor Bennett discusses the major...

The Japanese Tax System, Hiromitsu Ishi.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Japanese Tax System. Hiromitsu Ishi. Oxford University Press. [pound]45.00. 427 pages. ISBN 0-19-924256-9. The last edition of this study in 1993 revised a book first published in 1989. This, the third edition, brings Professor Ishi's study...

Vikings: Fear and Faith in AngloSaxon England.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Vikings: Fear and Faith in AngloSaxon England. Paul Cavill. HarperCollins. [pound]16.99. 361 pages. ISBN 0-00-710401-4. Between roughly 800 and 1050 the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that then made up England were subjected to a series of...

Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear. Jan Bondeson. W. W. Norton. [pound]18.95. 320 pages. ISBN 0-393-04906-X. In this book the author tackies one of mankind's most persistent fears, that of being buried alive. The fear,...