Contemporary Review articles from May 2001

Contemporary Review archives from May 2001

ISLAM AND THE WEST: FROM DISCORD TO UNDERSTANDING.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... THE spread of Islam has had an impact on the globalisation of culture. Islam has spread not only as a religion but has also helped to give birth to languages which are spoken by many more non-Muslims than Muslims. Kiswahili in Africa is today...

THE EUROPEAN UNION AND NORTH AFRICA.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... THE European Union, as it develops internally, and externally through enlargement, has constantly to keep under review its relations with the rest of the world. It was clear, from its inception that, unless its members were to make an...

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES: AN AFRICAN SCHOLAR'S VIEW.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... IMAGES of African Americans dominate every facet of life not only in the United States but increasingly in the entire world. Think of the stature of the Rev Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace Laureate, now an American national hero with the...

BROTHER AFRICA.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... He lies near death Dying in the dust Now his children Broken and forgot. Once mighty tribes His women - young and old Fall to the setting of the sun. Dead and dying He called for help host the killer...

MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND THE REAL FACE OF GOD.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... To see something 'with your own eyes' is for most of us the greatest certainty we can have in life. Yet the category of knowledge we call science has proved time and again that our senses as a source of knowing are primitive and unreliable. ...

THE VENERATION OF ICONS.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... IT is always disciples who ruin things. They generally ruin things by being insufficiently respectful of their masters' teachings. And they always do this by trying to be tremendously reverential - by trying to enshrine the master's name by...

GERMAN ROMANTIC PAINTING FROM BERLIN.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... TWO years have passed since the imaginative and scholarly exhibitions of the portraits of Ingres and the self-portraits of Rembrandt were mounted in the Sainshury Wing of the National Gallery. One has waited in vain for a comparable exhibition...

COLERIDGE'S ANCESTRAL VOICES.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... WE all know now that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is a masterpiece. But how do we know this? And has it always been known? Kubla Khan was first published in 1816 in a booklet that also contained Christabel and The Pains of...

PEACOCKS IN SOMERSET.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... THE setting of this sketch is a cottage garden on the edge of a Somerset village. The time is a warm, sunny afternoon in October 1999. Along one side of the garden runs a large bank of nasturtiums, well past their flowering best. As I stood,...

BRITAIN AND EUROPE: WHERE NOW?(Critical Essay)(Review)
May 1, 2001... Britain's Entry into the European Community, Sir Con O'Neill. Whitehall History Publishing with Frank Cass. [pound]55.00. 455 pages. ISBN 0-7146-5117-6. Separate Ways. Peter (Lord) Shore. Gerald Duckworth and Co. [pound]18.99. 239 pages. ISBN...

THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN JAPAN'S ECONOMY.(Critical Essay)(Review)
May 1, 2001... Making Fiscal Policy in Japan: Economic Effects and Institutional Settings. Hiromitsu Ishi. Oxford University Press. [pound]45.00. 352 pages. ISBN 0-19-924071-X. Japan has sustained the world's biggest and most technologically advanced...

THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE.(Critical Essay)(Review)
May 1, 2001... One Market Under God. Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy. Thomas Frank. Secker & Warburg. [pound]18.99. 414 pages. ISBN 0-436-27619-4. Implicit from the title of this book, paraphrased from the oath of...

THE IRISH ABROAD.(Critical Essay)(Review)
May 1, 2001... The Irish Diaspora. Andy Bielenberg, editor. Longman. [pound]14.99 p.b. 368 pages. ISBN 0-582-36997-5. The Irish Diaspora has now become the accepted label for a many-faceted phenomenon which has recently attracted a wide range of...

A. J. P. TAYLOR - ENGLAND'S PROFESSIONAL HISTORIAN.(Critical Essay)(Review)
May 1, 2001... Troublemaker: The Life & History of A. J. P. Taylor. Kathleen Burk. Yale University Press. [pounds]19.95. 416 pages. ISBN 0-300-8761-6. Measured solely by the amount of attention devoted to him as an individual, A. J. P. Taylor can lay...

ROBBIE ROSS: THE EARNEST FRIEND.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's True Love. Jonathan Fryer. Constable. [pound]18.99. 278 pages. ISBN 0-09-479770-6. Posterity's all-embracing determination concerning Robbie Ross is that he was a true-blue friend and true-blue, bred-in-the-gland...

PETER BROOK ON BEING PETER BROOK.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Between Two Silences. Peter Brook. Dale Moffitt, editor. Methuen. [pounds]12.99. ISBN 0-413-75580-0. The quiet, thoughtful, careful voice resonates even on the printed page. Once heard, never forgotten, his is the measured tone of achieved...

THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2001... VINTAGE have been bringing out a large number of literary titles. There are three more in their collection of Graham Greene's novels. The first is Stamboul Train ([pound]6.99. 216 pages), first published in 1932 and although his fourth novel,...

Historians on History.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Historians on History. John Tosh, editor. Longman [pound]16.99 p.b. 348 pages. ISBN 0-582-35795-0. This anthology brings together the writings of some of the most famous names in historical writing. There are selections from C. V. Wedgwood, J....

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume II: The Long Nineteenth century. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, editors. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]60.00/US$99.95. 1021 pages. ISBN 0-521-55307-5. This...

Britain in the Age of the French Revolution.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Britain in the Age of the French Revolution. Jennifer Mori. Longman. [pounds]17.99 p.b. 259 pages. ISBN 0-582-23852-8. The aim of this book is to introduce readers to British history between 1785 and 1815, specifically its politics, diplomacy,...

The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916: Documents Presented to Viscount Frey of Falloden by Viscount Bryce.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916: Documents Presented to Viscount Frey of Falloden by Viscount Bryce. Ara Sarafian, editor. Garod Books Ltd. [pound]32.00 p.b. 677 pages. This is the uncensored editon of the report...

A. L. Rowse: A Bibliophile's Extensive Bibliography.(Review)
May 1, 2001... A. L. Rowse: A Bibliophile's Extensive Bibliography. Sydney Cauveren. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. US$60.00. 336 pages. ISBN 0-8108-3641-6. This comprehensive and well done bibliography, number 103 in the Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, shows...

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics. Robin Gill, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pound]37.50/US$59.95. 290 pages. ISBN 0-521-77070-X. This Companion approaches its subject from three separate angles. The first, with five essays,...

British Elections and Parties Review: Volume Ten.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... British Elections and Parties Review: Volume Ten. Philip Cowley, David Denver, Andrew Russell and Lisa Harrison, editors, Frank Cass. [pound]45.00/US$64.50 h.b. & [pound]22.50/US$32.50 p.b. 300 pages. ISBN 0-7146-5096-X h.b. & 0-7146-81385 p.b....

Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. Volume I, A-K. Volume II, L-Z. Graham Speake, editor. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. [pound]190.00. 1919 pages. ISBN 1-57958-141-2. This massive production does not cover just Classical Greece,...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible.(Review)(Brief Review)
May 1, 2001... The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible. John Rogerson, editor. Oxford University Press. [pound]25.00. 395 pages. ISBN 0-19-860118-2. This latest in Oxford University Press's 'illustrated history' series tackles the Bible in four sections....

The Book of Margery Kempe.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Book of Margery Kempe. Lynn Staley, translator and editor. W. W. Norton. [pound]7.95 p.b. 305 pages. ISBN 0-393-97639-4. Margery Kempe's book, dating from the end of the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth centuries, is normally...

The English Press 1621-1861.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The English Press 1621-1861. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00. 213 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2524-8. The author has already written one book on English newspapers in the eighteenth century. He argues here that far from being engines of change,...

Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850. Jonathan Sperber. Longman. [pound]17.99 p.b. 472 pages. ISBN 0-582-29446-0. This new survey is part of Longman's series, the History of Modern Europe. Professor Sperber admits that writing any history about this...

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII. Stefan Hawlin and T. A. J. Burnett, editors. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pound]65.00. 401 pages. ISBN 0-19-818647-9. This authoritative edition finishes the...

Treason by the Book.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Treason by the Book. Jonathan Spence. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pound]16.99. 300 pages. ISBN 0-713-99449-5. The Chinese Empire brings to most people's minds the idea of a highly centralised, bureaucratic, secretive and enclosed world...

The Times and Appeasement: the Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Times and Appeasement: the Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939. Gordon Martel, editor. Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society. [pound]40.00. 312 pages. ISBN 0-521-79354-8. This volume is part of the venerable Camden...

England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy 1490-1690.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy 1490-1690. David Loades. Longman. [pound]15.99 p.b. 277 pages. ISBN 0-582-35628-8. This book is concerned with the 200-year period in which England moved from being 'a small and...

Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698. Anthony Cross. Cambridge University Press. [pound]35.00/US$54.95. 172 pages. ISBN 0-521-78298-8. Tsar Peter I, known in historical writings as Peter...

Contemporary Britain: A Survey with Texts.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Contemporary Britain: A Survey with Texts. John Oakland. Routledge. [pound]14.99 p.b. 253 pages. ISBN 0-415-15038-8. This book, in the words of its Preface, 'contains texts and commentaries that illustrate central debates about the contemporary...

Cicero: A Turbulent Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Cicero: A Turbulent Life. Anthony Everitt. John Murray. [pound]22.50. 346 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5491-8. Of all the great Roman writers and orators, Cicero remains one of the most attractive to modem man, the intellectual observer of men and...