Contemporary Review articles from June 2001

Contemporary Review archives from June 2001

TAIWAN AND MAINLAND CHINA.
June 1, 2001... RELATIONS between Taiwan and mainland China began to change substantially in August 1958, when the Republic of China (ROC) President Chiang Kai-shek and U.S. Secretary of State John F. Dulles in their joint communique declared that the ROC...

THE FUTURE OF THE BRITISH ISLES.
June 1, 2001... THE constituent nations of the British Isles were never really integrated. In spite of political union, the English, the S cots, the Welsh and the Irish have all maintained their authentic national and cultural identities. Although the Irish...

LEO MARKS: MASTER OF CODES.
June 1, 2001... LEO Marks, who died in January, made a startling impact in different spheres: as an intelligence officer and script writer. In view of his characteristic discretion, it seems inevitable that it was only in the last few years of his life that...

THE MYTH OF AN ORTHODOX BLOCK.
June 1, 2001... Editor's Note: This article was completed before the recent visit by the Pope to Greece. The Pope's apology for the actions of Western Christians is part of his attempt to reconcile Western and Eastern Christianity. THE apocalyptic events...

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND AMERICAN POLITICS.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... THE comedian, Jay Leno, put it best when describing the election of 2000 -- who would have thought Al Gore would be more popular and George Bush would finish ahead in college? Sadly for Al Gore, a presidential election really is not a...

THE BATTLEFIELDS OF NORMANDY.
June 1, 2001... A few miles to the north of us are the battlefields, the memorials and cemeteries of Normandy. It was here, the British decided after the retreat from Dunkirk in 1940, that the battle for Europe would be lost or won. Not even the huge conflict...

ANCIENT GREEK TALES FOR TODAY.
June 1, 2001... NINE hours of theatrical performance sounds more like an endurance test than entertainment. When the subject is the Trojan War, a story which old when Homer wrote The Iliad nearly thirty centuries ago... Then why did people flock to buy...

EXPLORING THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
June 1, 2001... 'IS this not one of Sindbad the Sailor's ports?', a British engineer coming to work in the United Arab Emirates asked as we walked our of the attractive Abu Dhabi Airport. We were in a good mood. Unlike many airports in the world, we had been...

SOLVING THE TROUBLES OF NORTHERN IRELAND.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Northern Ireland Peace Process: Ending the Troubles? Thomas Hennessey. Gill & Macmillan. Dublin. [pound]19.99. 256 pages. ISBN 07171-2946-2. As special adviser to the Unionist Party and as someone having full access to documents, many...

TORIES ON PARADE.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Ann Widdecombe: Right From the Beginning. Nicholas Kochan. Politico's Publishing. [pound]17.99. 296 pages. ISBN 1-902301-55. William Hague In His Own Right. Jo-Anne Nadler. Politico's Publishing. [pound]17.99. 292 pages. ISBN 1-902301-65-X. ...

WESTERN CIVILISATION, PAST AND FUTURE.(Review)
June 1, 2001... From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life. Jacques Barzun. Harper Collins. [pound]25.00. 877 pages. ISBN 0-00-711382-X. In the midst of this vast work, Professor Barzun turns to consider the role of the great nineteenth...

THE PUBLIC MARY WARNOCK.(Review)
June 1, 2001... A Memoir: People and Places. Mary Warnock. Duckworth. [pound]18.00. ISBN 0-71526-2955-7. Mary Warnock has an impressive record. She has been a leading academic in our two major universities in the field of philosophy. She has chaired...

BOMBER HARRIS - SCAPEGOAT OR HERO?(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-1945. Robin Neillands. John Murray. [pound]25.00. 448 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5637-6. Whether the Allied bombing offensive which played a major part in the defeat of Germany was...

OSCAR WILDE ACCORDING TO THE EPISTLES.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, editors. Fourth Estate. [pound]35.00. 1270 pages. ISBN 1-85702-781-7. As sea-salt is to spume, so letters are to conversation, solidifying and preserving the froth...

THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2001... THAMES AND HUDSON have reissued The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music ([pound]l6.95. 431 pages), edited by Barry Millington and first published in 1992. This massive reference work has copious details of the musical,...

Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Robert Gellately. Oxford University Press. [pound]19.99. 360 pages. ISBN 0-19-820560-0. The extent of the German people's support of Hitler and the Nazis is one of the 'great questions' to...

Doctor Forbes Winslow: Defender of the Insane.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Doctor Forbes Winslow: Defender of the Insane. Molly Whittington-Egan. Capella Archive. 280 pages. ISBN 1-902918-06-1. One of the most important advances made during the nineteenth century was the development in the related fields of psychology...

Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. James McDermott. Yale University Press. [pound]25.00. 509 pages. ISBN 0-300-08380-7. Martin Frobisher is usually remembered as one of Elizabeth I's great 'sea dogs' or, in the author's words, 'the...

England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square. Maureen Duffy. Fourth Estate. [pound]13.99.274 pages. ISBN 1-84115-166-1. The author's aim is to look again at the 'myths' or legends that have helped to create Englishmen's...

A Ram in the Well: A Welsh Homecoming.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A Ram in the Well: A Welsh Homecoming. June Knox-Mawer. John Murray. [pound]16.99. 223 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5587-6. The author is well known as a novelist, a writer of travel books, and a presenter of programmes on BBC Radio Four. The author grew...

Extreme Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Extreme Europe. Stephen Barber. Reaktion Books. [pound]12.95/US$25.00. 127 pages. ISBN 1-86189-091-5. This book takes a look at European life in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. It is concerned with...

Germany from Defeat to Partition 1945-1963.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Germany from Defeat to Partition 1945--1963. D. G. Williamson. Longman. [pound]9.99 p.b. 173 pages. ISBN 0-582-29218-2. This volume, part of Longman's Seminar Studies in History, covers the formative years of post-war German development. The...

The Wandering Jews.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Wandering Jews. Joseph Roth. Michael Hofmann, translator. Granta Books. [pound]12.99. 146 pages. Granta Books has earned considerable praise for republishing all the writings of Joseph Roth and for commissioning new translations of his...

Hard Times.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Hard Times. Charles Dickens. W. W. Norton. [pound]7.95 p.b. 480 pages. ISBN 0-393-97560-6. This third edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Dickens' famous novel is edited by Professor Fred Kaplan, Dickens' biographer and Sylvere Monod,...

English Architecture: A Concise History.(Review)
June 1, 2001... English Architecture: A Concise History. David Watkin. Thames and Hudson. [pound]7.95 p.b. 224 pages. ISBN 0-500-203385. This latest issue from Thames & Hudson's 'world-of-art' series will be a boon to anyone wanting a short, well-illustrated...

Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan. Edward Paice. HarperCollins. [pound]19.88. 470 pages. ISBN 0-00-257003-3. Late Victorian England saw a new breed of adventurers, similar to those who had flourished under the first...

SS 1: The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler.(Review)
June 1, 2001... SS 1: The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler. Hugh Thomas. Fourth Estate. [pound]18.99. 276 pages. ISBN 1-84115-306-0. Himmler is remembered as the head of Hitler's infamous SS who, after capture, escaped conviction at the Nuremberg Trials by...

1688: A Global History.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... 1688: A Global History. John E. Wills. Granta Books. [pound]20.00. 330 pages. ISBN 1-86207-413-5. Historians are always trying to find 'angles' from which to write about events already the subject of numerous other books. The Glorious...

A Country Unmasked.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A Country Unmasked. Alex Boraine. Oxford University Press. [pound]20.00. 466 pages. ISBN 0-19-571805-4. The author, at one time President of South Africa's Methodist Church and MP for the Progressive Party, was in 1995 appointed deputy chairman...

The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions. Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen and Penny Stock. Oxford University Press. [pound]15.99 (US$25.00). 453 pages. ISBN 0-19-860031-3. O.U.P. continues its series of dictionaries with a new guide to allusions in...

Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain. Brock Millman. Frank Cass. [pound]45.00 h.b. and [pound]18.50 p.b. 335 pages. ISBN 0714651544 h.b. and 0714681059 p.b. The Great War saw the power of government soar to heights never before...

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Deidre David, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pound]37.50 h.b. and [pound]13.95 p.b. 267 pages. ISBN 0-521-64150-0 h.b. and 0-521-64619-7 p.b. This collection of eleven essays, mainly by...

History of Art.(Review)
June 1, 2001... History of Art. H. W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson. Thames & Hudson. [pound]48.00. 997 pages. ISBN 0-500-237816. H. W. Janson's monumental study of art was first published in 1962. After Professor Janson's death in 1982 his son, Anthony, has...

The Bronte Myth.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Bronte Myth. Lucasta Miller. Jonathan Cape. [pound]18.99. 320 pages. ISBN 0-224-03745-5. This book examines literary myths and how they came into being and also looks at the reality behind the myths. The book seeks to answer the question...

They Arrived by Moonlight.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... They Arrived by Moonlight. Captain Jacques Doneux. St Ermin's Press-Little, Brown. [pound]18.99. 212 pages. ISBN 1-903608-00-7. The author was born in London of Belgian parents. In 1941 he joined the Royal Army Service Corps and in the...