Contemporary Review articles from November 2001

Contemporary Review archives from November 2001

Coping with globalisation.
November 1, 2001... THE world was undergoing tremendous change even before the horrors of 11 September. Both democracy and the market economy have proliferated globally since the collapse of communism, and revolutionary developments in communication and...

Terrorism in America: Reflections from a french field.
November 1, 2001... "IT is war", said the fat men sitting opposite. 'It is war on all of us'. 'It is worse than war', said his wife. 'In war one can see one's enemy'. We were gathered, about 250 of us, lunching in a field under polythene glasshouses in warmth...

Gender inequality in Africa.
November 1, 2001... WHAT does the division between the sexes mean to people in different places and times? Different places and times! This phrase holds the key to gender equality in the world today. Another equally important anthropological question is: how are...

Nepal's monarchy after the massacre.
November 1, 2001... THE massacre of the Nepalese royal family has cast a dark shadow over Nepal. The murder of King Birendra, venerated by his subjects as the reincarnation of the Hindu god, Vishnu, and his wife, Queen Aishwarya, by their eldest son, Crown Prince...

Australia and asylum seekers.
November 1, 2001... JUST over a year ago, Australia successfully hosted the largest peacetime event in world history -- the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Australia reaffirmed its international reputation as a friendly country. Now there is an edge of bitterness. But this...

The political consequences of the U.S. census.
November 1, 2001... THE first US census was conducted in 1790 after the passage that year of the Census Act. The process was one signal that the young and recently independent nation was adopting more modem approaches than its perceived former 'oppressor',...

Helping china's pollution with waterways.
November 1, 2001... THE World Bank is expected shortly to raise billions of dollars worth of investment capital in support of a programme to reverse a series of environment management disasters in China, which many believe endanger the very health of the planet....

Ethiopia: The land of prester John.
November 1, 2001... THE legendary wealthy kingdom of Prester John exerted such a prodigious influence on European thought in the Middle Ages that Pope Alexander III despatched a messenger to him in 1177. Prester John was reputed to have withstood the onslaught of...

Educating maths teachers in America.
November 1, 2001... IN Britain debates about the need for increased attention to scientific and technological education go back to the nineteenth century and are increasing today as New Labour attempts to put its vague electoral slogan of 'Education, Education,...

The normandy invasion from the ground. (Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... With the Jocks: A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45. Peter White. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]19.99. 471 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2721-6. Flushing, or Vlissingen, is a town on the Dutch island of Walcheren. To me, a school-boy in...

Solly zuckerman: The last evangelist of the enlightenment. (Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Solly Zuckerman: A Scientist out of the Ordinary. John Peyton. John Murray. [pounds sterling]22.50. 252 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6283-X. Solly Zuckerman certainly did a lot. He was an anatomist, a zoologist, an expert on bomb blast, an advocate...

John bayley's final volume. (Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Widower's House. John Bayley. Duckworth. [pounds sterling]16.99. 205 pages. ISBN 0-7156-3076-8. This book completes the trilogy John Bayley has written in moving response to the death of his celebrated novelist wife, Iris Murdoch. The...

Spain's first Bourbon King. (Reviews).(Review)
November 1, 2001... Philip V of Spain: The King Who Reigned Twice. Henry Kamen. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. 277 pages. ISBN 0-300-08718-7. For Spaniards the last few decades have been the happiest in our history. They have seen Spain...

An inveterate traveller. (Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The Ulick O'Connor Diaries 1970-1981: A Cavalier Irishman. John Murray. [pounds sterling]22.50. 334 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5673-2. Ulick O'Connor was born in Dublin in 1929 and educated at University College Dublin and Loyola University, New...

In search of pirates. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Hunting Pirate Heaven. Kevin Rushby. Constable. [pounds sterling]16.99. 287 pages. ISBN 0-09-480010-3. Perhaps we think the pirates of the 16th and 17th century were to be found only around the Spanish Main. This book shows there was more...

The search for roots. A personal anthology. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology. Primo Levi. Peter Forbes, translator. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pounds]12.99. 234 pages. ISBN 0-71-399487-8. Prima Levi remains one of the great voices of the twentieth century. His experiences...

The Trial of Henry Kissinger. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Christopher Hitchens. Verso. o15.00. 159 pages. ISBN 1-85984-631-9. The author of this book is a well known writer of the left who likes stirring up hornets' nests, especially if the hornets are well known. In this...

Pressure groups in British politics. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Pressure Groups in British Politics. Bill Coxall. Longman. [pounds sterling]16.99 p.b. 205 pages. ISBN 0-582-28994-7. Pressure groups are not a new part of the British constitution. In the modern understanding of the term they go back at least...

Empires: Perspectives from archaeology and History. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Susan E. Alcock, Terence N. D'Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison and Carla M. Sinopoli, editors. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]65.00 (US$95.00). 523 pages. ISBN 0-521-77020-3. This...

Local governance in England and France. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Local Governance in England and France. Alistair Cole and Peter John. Routledge. [pounds sterling]55.00. 192 pages. ISBN 0-415-23942-7. This recent addition to Routledge's Studies in Governance and Public Policy series is a comparative study of...

Vanishing Histories: 100 Endangered sites from the world monuments watch. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Vanishing Histories: 100 Endangered Sites from the World Monuments Watch. Colin Amery with Brian Curran. Harry N. Abrams. [pounds sterling]40.00. 208 pages. ISBN 10-8109-1435-2. This book, despite its beautiful illustrations and superb layout,...

France and the second world war: Occupation, collaboration and resistance. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration and Resistance. Peter Davies. Routledge, [pounds sterling]30.00. 144 pages. ISBN 0-415-23896-X. This short but well organised and well written work provides a lucid account of the...

Eton established. A History from 1440 to 1860. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Eton Established: A History From 1440 to 1860. Tim Card, John Murray. [pounds sterling]22.50. 212 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6052-7. Tim Card was at Eton for over a half century since he arrived as a twelve year old boy in 1944. He has taught...

The war in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzogevina 1991-1995. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzogevina 1991-1995. Branka Magas and Ivo Zanic, editors. Frank Cass. [pounds sterling]45.00. ISBN 0-7146-820-1. The last decade of the twentieth century, like the first, was dominated by the Balkans. In the...

My father's Keeper: The children of the Nazi Leaders -- An intimate history of damage and Denial. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... My Father's Keeper: The Children of the Nazi Leaders -- An Intimate History of Damage and Denial. Stephan and Norbert Lebert, translated by Julian Evans. Little, Brown and Co. [pounds sterling]16.99. 244 pages. ISBN 0-316-85811-0. The...

Imperial Russia 1801-1905. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Imperial Russia 1801-1905. Tim Chapman. Roufledge. [pounds sterling]45.00. 149 pages. ISBN 0-415-23109-4. This study of the nineteenth century Russian Empire 'tries to synthesise the work of other scholars who have unravelled the history of...

James Lees-Milne. Holy dread: Diaries, 1982-1984. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... James Lees-Milne. Holy Dread: Diaries, 1982-1984. Michael Bloch, editor. John Murray. [pounds sterling]22.50. 240 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6204-8. The ninth volume of this increasingly celebrated diary finds the author in his mid-seventies....

Indira: The life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. Katherine Frank. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]19.99. 567 pages. ISBN 0-00-255646-4. One of the ironies of Indian history, as of the history of other former stones in the British imperial crown, is the...

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis letters, 1955-1962: A selection. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters, 1955-1962: A Selection. Roger Hudson, editor. John Murray. [pounds sterling]22.50. 368 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6206-6. Twenty years ago this entertaining correspondence between the publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis,...

Palestine twilight: The murder of Dr Albert Glock and the archaeology of the Holy Land. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr Albert Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land. Edward Fox. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]19.99. 277 pages. ISBN 0-00-255607-3. In the West Bank in 1992 Dr Albert Glock, an American citizen who was also...

A Frigate of king george: Life and duty on a British Man-of-War 1807-1829. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... A Frigate of King George: Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War 1807-1829. Brian Vale. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]25.00. 204 pages. ISBN 1-86064-654-9. In recent years there have been numerous histories of the Royal Navy and naval novels are...

A Few bloody noses: The American war of Independence. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... A Few Bloody Noses: The American War of Independence. Robert Harvey. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. 480 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6141-8. Since the days of Sir G. 0. Tevelyan, English historians have written many excellent accounts of the...

The twilight years: Paris in the 1930s. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s. William Wiser. Robson Books. [pounds sterling]17.95. 292 pages. ISBN 1-86105-420-3. This survey, first published in the U.S., may be seen as a continuation of the same author's The Crazy Years: Paris in...

The three roosevelts: The leaders who Transformed America. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Three Roosevelts: The Leaders who Transformed America. James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn. Atlantic Books. [pounds sterling]25.00.678 pages. ISBN 1-903809-8. Professor Bums is one of America's leading authorities on F.D. Roosevelt, whose...

The warden of english: The life of H. W Fowler. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Warden of English: The Life of H. W Fowler. Jenny McMorris. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. 242 pages. ISBN 0-19-866254-8. Generations of Englishmen perplexed with a point of grammar have said, 'I'll just check to see...

An economic history of London, 1800-1914. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... An Economic History of London, 1800-1914. Michael Ball and David Sunderland. Routledge. [pounds sterling]75.00. 470 pages. ISBN 0415-244691-1. In the nineteenth century London was the world's greatest capital city. It was part of Britain's...

The hidden hand: Britain, america and cold war secret intelligence. (Reviews).(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence. Richard J. Aldrich. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. 733 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5423-3. Among the numerous books being published on the Cold War this stands pre-eminent. The...