Contemporary Review articles from September 2001

Contemporary Review archives from September 2001

WITNEY: A QUIET TOWN IN UNQUIET TIMES.(Witney, a village near Oxford, England)
September 1, 2001... Witney, a modest country town twelve miles to the west of Oxford, has stood in one form or another for centuries. Its small size, and the modern, blank-faced housing estates which are springing up in a ring around the original town (in keeping...

POVERTY AND MENTAL HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.
September 1, 2001... Health experts are sending out an international alert that mental health problems are dramatically increasing worldwide with the World Health Organization (WHO) warning that depression is set to become the main cause of disability and second...

FRENCH PAINTINGS FROM MARYLAND.(French art in the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery)
September 1, 2001... Both picture galleries in the populous American city of Baltimore testify the civic patriotism and munificence of two Maryland families who used their riches to enhance the lives of others: the Cones and the Walters. Fifty modern French...

THE CHALLENGE OF PEACEKEEPING IN AFRICA.
September 1, 2001... IN an article published in The National Interest in 1999/2000 the influential American scholar and political analyst Edward Luttwak stated that 'all over Africa, civil servants do not serve, government doctors provide no patient care, customs...

TEACHING ENGLISH IN CHINA.
September 1, 2001... Anyone willing to teach English in China meets with a voracious demand for their skills. As the country steps further onto the world stage, its people seek to communicate in the leading international language. These are a few impressions and...

THE IRON LADY OF INDIA.(Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu)
September 1, 2001... GLAMOUR queen turned grisly politician! She is the new 'Iron Lady of India'. The 53-year-old Jayalalitha was once a screen star. Though only a provincial leader, she is, in the words of a political commentator, 'a colossus who dominates...

THE PARTITION OF YUGOSLAVIA: A NAZI PLAN RECALLED.
September 1, 2001... The sight of Slobodan Milosevic being escorted from a plane to face justice before a court in The Hague is only the most dramatic of the recent events that have thrust the Balkans back onto the front pages of the world's newspapers. Most of the...

BOB DYLAN'S DILEMMA: WHICH BLONDE?
September 1, 2001... Bob Dylan has always identified with the outlaw. The iconoclastic singer has even written a song entitled Outlaw Blues, included on the 1965 Bringing It All Back Home album, which contrasts the wealthy and successful establishment figure with...

THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.(newly released paperbacks on history and politics)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... ROUTLEDGE, one of the country's leading publishers of academic titles, has recently brought out paperback editions of four titles in the fields of politics, philosophy and history. In politics there is David Steele's highly praised Lord...

AMERICA'S PRESIDENT: ILLUSIONS AND REALITIES.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The American Presidency 1945-2000: Illusions of Grandeur. G. H. Bennett. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00. 274 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2277-X. Clearly designed to coincide with the Presidential Election of 2000, G. H. Bennett's re-examination of...

THE MANY COLOURS OF TOURISM.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Making the World Safe for Tourism. Patricia Goldstone. Yale University Press. [pound]22.50 (US$30.00). 272 pages. ISBN 300-08763-2. People have been touring for pleasure long before the word, tourism, appeared around the start of the...

THE FUTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY: WHO OWNS WHAT?(Review)
September 1, 2001... Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology. Colin Renfrew. Duckworth. [pounds]9.99 p.b. 160 pages. ISBN 0-7156-3034-2. Archaeology is enjoying renewed popularity in Britain. Thanks to television programmes such as...

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY.
September 1, 2001... ROUTLEDGE has recently begun two exciting new series, both aimed at the growing interest in English literature and literary criticism in general. The first, 'Routledge Classics', seeks to introduce a new generation of readers to great works of...

France: The Dark Years 1940-1944.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... France: The Dark Years 1940-1944. Julian Jackson. Oxford University Press. [pound]25.00. 660 pages. ISBN 0-19-820706-9. The 'dark years' were those after France had surrendered to the Nazis and left the fighting to Britain, her allies and a...

Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880. Alice Moore-Harell. Frank Cass. [pound]39.50 (US$54.50). 286 pages. ISBN 07146-5081-1. Charles George Gordon was one of Victorian Britain's greatest heroes, a man regarded by many as a...

Target: Pearl Harbor.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Target: Pearl Harbor. Michael Slackman. Pimlico. [pound]8.99 p.b. 354 pages. ISBN 0-7126-6851-9. This study, first published in the United States in 1990, concentrates on the principal events of Sunday, 7 December -- the 'day of infamy' in...

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen. Alison Plowden. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00 (US$27.95). 290 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1882-9. From her years as an editor at the BBC the author learned the value of words and the need to keep a...

The Plots to Rescue the Tsar.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Plots to Rescue the Tsar. Shay McNeal. Century. [pound]17.99.345 pages. ISBN 0-7126-8029-2. Shay McNeal is a former businesswoman and political consultant who has become a writer of investigative history. In this latest book on the fate of...

Encyclopedia of the Palestinians.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Philip Mattar, editor. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. [pound]50.00. 513 pages. ISBN 1-57958-208-7. This encyclopedia gives readers a 'comprehensive one-volume compendium of knowledge about modern Palestinian...

The Collected Letters of A. W. N. Pugin: Volume I 1830-1842.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Collected Letters of A. W. N. Pugin: Volume I 1830-1842. Margaret Belcher, editor. Oxford University Press. [pound]70.00. 428 pages. ISBN 0-19-817391-1. Pugin's place in the architectural history of Britain is unquestioned. His is one of...

Beria, My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Beria, My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin. Sergo Beria. Francoise Thom, editor and Brian Pearce, translator. Duckworth. [pound]25.00. 397 pages. ISBN 0-7156-3062-8. This biography, first published in Paris as Beria mon pere in 1991, gives us a...

Politics and the American Economy.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Politics and the American Economy. James J. Gosling. Longman. [pound]20.99 p.b. 175 pages. ISBN 0-321-07044-5. This study looks at the relationship between politics and economics in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s. After an introduction in...

Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945. Aristotle A. Kallis. Routledge. [pound]50.00. 286 pages. ISBN 0415-21611-7. In this study, Aristotle Kallis, a tutor in the Departments of Politics and History in the...

Seahenge: New Discoveries in Prehistoric Britain.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Seahenge: New Discoveries in Prehistoric Britain. Francis Pryor. HarperCollins. [pound]19.99. 337 pages. ISBN 0-00-710191-0. The author of this book is a well established authority on excavations of Bronze Age religious sites and on religion in...

Russia and the Russians: A History from Rus to the Russian Federation.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Russia and the Russians: A History from Rus to the Russian Federation. Geoffrey Hosking. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pounds]25.00. 718 pages. ISBN 0-71399514-9. The author, Professor of Russian History in the University of London, has set...

Gwen John: A life.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Gwen John: A life. Sue Roe. Chatto & Windus. [pound]25.00. 364 pages. ISBN 0-701-16695-9. In the earlier days of feminism it was fashionable to assert that the wife, mistress or sister of a famous man was actually more important than the man...

Libraries in the Ancient World.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Libraries in the Ancient World. Lionel Casson. Yale University Press. [pound]18.95. 177 pages. ISBN 0-300-08809-4. Anyone who uses libraries, whether public, private or university, anyone who loves books and anyone with an interest in the...

Left Book Club Anthology.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Left Book Club Anthology. Victor Gollancz. [pound]20.00. 254 pages. ISBN 0-575-07221-0. In 1936 the Left Book Club was established by the publisher, Victor Gollancz, to disseminate left-wing thought. It quickly proved a success and within three...

The History of the Rhodes Trust 1902-1999.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The History of the Rhodes Trust 1902-1999. Anthony Kenny, editor. Oxford University Press. [pound]60.00. 606 pages. ISBN 0-19-920191-9. This collection of essays, edited by Sir Anthony Kenny, Warden of Rhodes House from 1989-1999, is the first...

The City of London. Volume IV. A Club No More: 1945-2000.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The City of London. Volume IV. A Club No More: 1945-2000. David Kynaston. Chatto & Windus. [pound]30.00. 886 pages. ISBN 0-70116949-4. With this fourth volume Professor Kynaston concludes his massive history of the City of London during the...

Kingdom for a Stage: Magicians & Aristocrats in the Elizabethan Theatre.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Kingdom for a Stage: Magicians & Aristocrats in the Elizabethan Theatre. Joy Hancox. Sutton Publishing. [pound]20.00 (US$29.95). 270 pages. ISBN 0-75092239-7. This study carries on the work begun in the writer's earlier book, The Byrom...