Contemporary Review articles from October 2001

Contemporary Review archives from October 2001

UNITED IN GRIEF: BRITAIN AND AMERICA 'SHOULDER TO SHOULDER'.
October 1, 2001... ON Tuesday the eleventh of September, that decreasing portion of people in Britain who follow political news were mildly interested to see whether the Prime Minister would receive a cool welcome from his allies in the Trade Union Conference who...

THE TURKS AND JERUSALEM.
October 1, 2001... Editor's Note: DrAras's article was ready for printing when news arrived of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. He has kindly contributed an After-word about the Turkish response to this crisis. FORGETTING the Ottoman past...

ARAFAT'S AGENDA.(Yasir Arafat)
October 1, 2001... ON 9 August 2001, a 23 year old Palestinian, Izz el-Din al-Masari, walked into the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem and blew himself up. Fifteen others, including six children and two foreign tourists, died with him. There was nothing left of the...

THE PARTHENON MARBLES -- PAST AND FUTURE.
October 1, 2001... I first saw the Parthenon in 1954 from the deck of an elderly liner named the Nea Hellas as she approached the dock at Piraeus. Two weeks earlier she had departed New York. After seven days at sea we touched at Lisbon, and then on to Naples...

JOSEPH STIGLITZ: AN ECONOMIST AT THE WORLD BANK.
October 1, 2001... JOSEPH E. Stiglitz assumed his role as Chief Economist/Senior Vice President -- Development at the World Bank (hence 'the Bank') on the 11 February 1997. His tenure ended at the close of 1999. This is seen as an unusually brief occupancy and...

THE NETHERLANDS: FROM EUROSCEPTICISM TO EUROPHORIA.
October 1, 2001... WHOEVER thinks 'euroscepticism' is a British invention, should brush up on his knowledge of European history. Certainly, the British invented the term itself, but the attitude has been around for much longer. For example Charles de Gaulle, a...

SYLVIA: A FIXER AT THE BEIRUT EMBASSY.
October 1, 2001... ONLY two categories of persons are indispensible in any British Embassy. The first is the Ambassador himself, without whom, since accreditation is personal, from Head of State to Head of State, there would be no embassy. The second is the...

JOHN MASEFIELD'S CENTRAL AMERICA.
October 1, 2001... During the 1920s John Masefield, the future Poet Laureate, published two novels set in the imaginary Latin American republic of Santa Barbara, Sard Harker (1924) and ODTAA (1926). Both novels touch on the career of the supposedly legendary...

UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN ELECTIONS.(The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections)(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections. Yanek Mieczkowski. Routledge. [pounds]19.95 h.b. and [pounds]10.99 p.b. 160 pages. ISBN 0-415-92133-3 h.b. and 0-415-92139-2 p.b. Covering all fifty-four US presidential elections...

THE MAN BEHIND 1984.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Orwell. Wintry Conscience of a Generation. Jeffrey Meyers. W. W. Norton & Company. [pound]19.95. 380 Pages. ISBN 0-393-04792-X. When, during my last months of working in John Birt's BBC, a colleague and I found ourselves discussing what we...

THE MEN IN CHARGE.(Commanding Officers)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Commanding Officers. David Miller. John Murray. [pound]22.50. ISBN 0-7195-5989-8. Successful commanding officers, as was said of one of Wellington's ablest battalion commanders in the Peninsular War, have a genius for war. Call it luck if...

THE CROSS AT AUSCHWITZ.(The Battle for Auschwitz: Catholic-Jewish Relations under Strain)(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Battle for Auschwitz: Catholic-Jewish Relations under Strain. Emma Klein. Vallentine Mitchell. [pound]8.50 (US$12.50). 86 pages. ISBN 0-85303-429-X. This is an account of what, on any other stage, might be called a comedy of errors....

Russia's Heroes.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Russia's Heroes. Albert Axell. Constable. [pound]18.99. 264 pages. ISBN 1-84119-312-7. This book seeks to right what the author considers an historic imbalance. In Britain, Europe and America the western front of the last world war has been...

Henry VIII: King and Court.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Henry VIII: King and Court. Alison Weir. Jonathan Cape. [pound]20.00. 639 pages. ISBN 0-224-06022-8. This book is a good example of biography mixed with social history to produce a study of a man and his times. The author's aim is 'to draw...

Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World. David Berlinski. Duckworth. [pound]16.99. ISBN 0-7156-3061-X. Sir Isaac Newton remains the 'largest figure in the history of western science' whose influence continues to...

Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Mexican Phoenix. Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries. D. A. Brading. Cambridge University Press. [pound]27.95 (US$34.95). 444 pages. ISBN 0-521-80131-1. The author, Professor of Mexican History in the University of...

Ladies of the Grand Tour.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Ladies of the Grand Tour. Brian Dolan. HarperCollins. [pound]19.99. 338 pages. ISBN 0-00-710532-0. The 'grand tour' usually refers to young Englishmen who had the money with which to tour Europe in search for sophistication, stature and, as the...

Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1991.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1991. David Parker, editor. Routledge. [pound]55.00. 237 pages. ISBN 0-415-17294-2. This collective of twelve essays discusses the major revolutions which had 'punctuated the history...

The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970. Nicholas Griffin, editor. Routledge. [pound]25.00. 660 pages. ISBN 0-415-24998-8. The editor, who is Director of the Bertrand Russell Research Centre in Ontario's McMaster...

English Words: History and Structure.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... English Words: History and Structure. Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova. Cambridge University Press. [pound]37.50 (US$54.95). 208 pages. ISBN 0-52 179362-9. This book concentrates its attend on to the ways in which the English language has...

The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson. Richard Woodman. Constable. [pound]18.99. 384 pages. ISBN 1-84119-183-3. The author is a well established writer on naval subjects, both as a novelist and as an...

A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin. Judith Flanders. Viking. [pound]17.99. 392 pages. ISBN 0-670-88673-4. The four daughters of the Rev George Macdonald have fascinated two previous...

Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944-2000.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Arthur Miller. Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944-2000. Steven R. Centola, editor. Methuen. [pounds]20.00. 332 pages. ISBN 0-413-75690-4. Whilst Arthur Miller will be remembered as a playwright, he has also been an essayist. The...

Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order. Martin A. Smith and Graham Timmins, editors. Routledge. [pounds]55.00. 284 pages. ISBN 0-415-23735-1. To date the reality of E.U. involvement in maintaining world order has failed...

Britain and Defence 1945-2000: A Policy Re-evaluation.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Britain and Defence 1945-2000: A Policy Re-evaluation. Stuart Croft, Andrew Dorman, Wyn Rees, Matthew Uttley. Longman. [pounds]18.99 p.b. ISBN 0-582-30377-X. This study looks at the changes that have occurred in the United Kingdom's defence...

Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son. Beverley A. Murphy. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00 ($27.95). 282 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2684-8. In truth, Henry VIII's illegitimate son, Henry, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, has not so much been forgotten as...

Princes of the Church: A History of the English Cardinals.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Princes of the Church: A History of the English Cardinals. Dominic Aidan Bellenger and Stella Fletcher. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00 (US$34.95). 211 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2630-9. Besides the Pope, cardinals are the best known officials of the...

Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS. Loma Almonds Windmill. Constable. [pound]18.99. 296 pages. ISBN 0-84119-340-2. This book is more than just a biography of a famous father by a dutiful daughter. The father in question,...

London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People. Jerry White. Viking. [pound]25.00. 526 pages. ISBN 0-670-89139-8. The author, who has written on London's history before, is one of the three Local Government 'Ombudsmen' for England. Over...

Celtic Saints in their Landscape.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Celtic Saints in their Landscape. Elizabeth Rees. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00 (US$29.95). 216 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2686-4. The interest in all things Celtic shows no sign of diminishing. This is seen in this new title written by a Catholic...