Contemporary Review articles from March 2000

Contemporary Review archives from March 2000

RUSSIA ENTERS THE NEW CENTURY.
March 1, 2000... RUSSIA'S role in this new century could be humble: just one country among many others. While Russia may not expect to be the global leader in the future, the country could look back to the past with pride. Indeed, she in many ways epitomizes...

NEVER.(Poem)
March 1, 2000... Never borrow from lenders keen to lend, Never underinvest or overspend, Never ride to fall or fear to ascend, Never ingratiate or condescend. Never ask cynics to help or defend, Never expect good talkers to attend, ...

THE KING OF TERRORS: THE THEOLOGY OF HENRY SCOTT HOLLAND.
March 1, 2000... AUNT has just died. In A Question of Integrity, Susan Howatch's latest novel, Alice Harrison opens her aunt's will to see if this feisty old woman has left any funeral instructions. Indeed she has, including the command: 'Under no circumstances...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ISRAELI LABOUR MOVEMENT: PART TWO.
March 1, 2000... The February number described the rise of the Israeli Labour Movement. In this second part the author analyses the process of its disintegration and collapse. The Israeli Labour Movement has ceased to exist. Its structure has collapsed,...

POLITICS IN INDIA.
March 1, 2000... THE number 13 has played a crucial role in the rise and fall of the Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP for short, which rules India today. This right-wing nationalist party, committed self-confessedly to pro-Hindu activist agenda, is in the unenviable...

GM FOODS IN PERSPECTIVE: PART THREE.
March 1, 2000... Latin America (LA) seems to have adopted a global perspective to GM foods. This could be due to the fact that LA countries still have large poverty pockets where populations are underfed. On 12 October 1999 the world's population reached the 6...

AUSTRALIA'S DEADLOCK OVER A REPUBLIC.
March 1, 2000... QUEEN Elizabeth won her first election on November 6, 1999. 54 per cent of Australians voted 'no' in a referendum on whether the country should become a republic. But the result should not be misinterpreted. Australians did not vote for the...

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.
March 1, 2000... It is not the careful restraint of the language of the American Constitution of 1787 but the constant drumbeat of occurring and recurring daily crises that has made the office of the President so important and why once again men are racing from...

WHO RULES THE RULERS?(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten. Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon. HarperCollins. [pounds] 19.99. 700 pages. ISBN 0-00-257086-6. This book describes the head office of a biggish conglomerate with...

THE FORGOTTEN INDIA.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Cobra Road: An Indian Journey. Trevor Fishlock. John Murray. [pounds]18.99. 264 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5516-7. Britain's fascination with India, judged by the ongoing demand for travellers' tales from the subcontinent, must work wonders for...

A PSYCHIATRIST'S VIEW OF VIGINIA WOOLF.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Virginia Woolf: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Peter Daily. Robson Books. [pounds]16.99. 225 pages. ISBN 1-86105-219-7. The connection between madness and creativity is a well established notion. Indeed the bulk of scientific research...

HEMINGWAY'S ROAD TO SUICIDE.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Hemingway: The Final Years. Michael Reynolds. Norton. [pounds]19.95/US$30.00. 416 pages. ISBN 0-393-04748-2. This book is the fifth and final volume of Michael Reynold's biography of Ernest Hemingway, published to coincide with the...

THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2000... VIRAGO has recently brought out paperback editions of Raynes Minns' 1980 title, Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45 ([pounds]10.99. 206 pages. ISBN 1-86049-794-2), a fascinating recollection of life in England during the Second World...

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... John Larner. Yale University Press. [pounds]19.95. 250 pages. ISBN 0-300 07971-0. In this book the retired Professor of History in the University of Glasgow examines Marco Polo as a writer, rather than as an explorer. Marco Polo's book, The...

Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton.(Review)
March 1, 2000... William Doyle. London House. [pounds]18.99. 420 pages. ISBN 1-902809-12-2. This may be called an example of oral history in the making. The compiler is known to television viewers because he was responsible for the series, The Secret White...

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Lorna Sage, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]27.95 h.b. and [pounds]16.95 p.b. 696 pages. ISBN 0-52149525-3 h.b. and 0-521-66813-1 p.b. This latest Guide from Cambridge is devoted to 'literary women writing in English' and has over...

The Cossacks.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... John Ure. Constable. [pounds]20.00. 256 pages. ISBN 0-09-477400-5. Sir John Ure was HM Ambassador to a variety of countries before he took up writing travel and historical books. Here he tackles one of the most famous, and often feared, tribes...

Survival Tactics: A Literary Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Peter Vansittart. Peter Owen. [pounds]17.95. 192 pages. ISBN 0-7206-1072-9. Peter Vansittart is that odd combination, a novelist and an historian. He may also be called 'odd' because he does not fit into any neat category of 'left' or 'right'....

Life Along the Silk Road.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Susan Whitfield. John Murray. [pounds]19.99. 242 pages. ISBN 0-71995-5757-7. The author is in charge of the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library. This provides Internet access to over 50,000 manuscripts from all over the world...

Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum US 1840-1860.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Joseph P. Ferrie. Oxford University Press. u37.00. 223 pages. ISBN 0-198-510934-1. This study takes a fresh look at the first great influx of immigrants to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. This challenging book examines afresh the...

See It My Way.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Peter White. Little, Brown & Co. [pounds]15.99. 308 pages. ISBN 0-316-64642-3. Anyone who listens to BBC Radio Four will immediately recognise the author of this autobiography as a familiar voice. What that voice will not have told them is that...

Besieged in Peking: The Story of the 1900 Boxer Rising.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Diana Preston. Constable. [pounds]20.00. 322 pages. The Boxer Rebellion, or 'Rising', is one of those events in modem history that occupies a special place among the side-shows of British, European and American expansion in the nineteenth...

Diana Mosley: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Jan Dalley. Faber and Faber. [pounds]20.00/Can$45.00. 297 pages. ISBN 0-571-14448-9. This is an incomplete biography for three reasons. Its subject is still alive. It stops roughly half way through its subject's life. It does not make use of...

Jesus: Authors Take Sides.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Richard Ingrains, editor. HarperCollins. [pounds]16.99. 186 pages. ISBN 0-00-255842-4. The editor of this anthology is himself a writer and in his working life has dealt with words. He therefore correctly argues that other writers -- those who...

MAKING SENSE OUT OF THE PRESENT.(Review)
March 1, 2000... History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s. Timothy Garton Ash. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pounds]20.00. 441 pages. ISBN 0-713-99323-5. In today's society, there has never been more news: the...

Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Peter Childs and Mike Stony, editors. Routledge. [pounds]85.00. 628 pages. ISBN 0-415-14726-3. The size and price of this volume mean it is designed almost exclusively for libraries' reference shelves. In some 1000 entries the editors, their...