The English Historical Review articles from June 1994, page 3

The English Historical Review archives from June 1994

I documenti diplomatici italiani. Series 9: 1939-1943. Vol. X: 7 febbraio-8 settembre
June 1, 1994... I documenti diplomatici italiani. Series 9: 1939-1943. Vol. X: 7 febbraio-8 settembre 1943, ed. Pietro Pastorelli (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1990; pp. lxvi + 1035. N.p.) contains the long-awaited documentation on the last...

War from the Top. German and British Decision-Making during World War II.
June 1, 1994... Alan F. Wilt, struck by the extent to which books about the Second World War deal with one side or the other rather than both, has written in War from the Top. German and British Decision-Making during World War II (London: I.B. Tauris, 1990;...

Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War.
June 1, 1994... It is inherent in the nature of symposia that they should be characterized by a certain inequality and unevenness. This is the case with John Gooch's edited compilation of essays, Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War (London: Cass, 1990;...

Tussen restauratie en vernieuwing. Aspecten van de Belgische naoorlogse politiek, 1944-1950.
June 1, 1994... The historiography of post-war European reconstruction is not over-endowed with major works on the smaller states, a fact which makes the publication of a new collection of essays on Belgium especially welcome. The title, Tussen restauratie en...

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-49.
June 1, 1994... Benny Morris's former book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-49 (Cambridge, 1988) established the author as a major revisionist historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His new volume, 1948 and After. Israel and the...

The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948-56.
June 1, 1994... The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948-56, by David R. Devereux (London: Macmillan, in assoc. with King's College London, 1990; pp. xi + 241.[pounds]35), is a well-researched and comprehensively documented...

Vom Marshallplan zur EWG. Die Eingliederung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in die westliche welt.
June 1, 1994... The years from 1948 to 1958 were a watershed for Western Europe. They saw the establishment of a new political and economic order on which the stability and prosperity of the late twentieth century have been based. A critical factor in this...

The Oxford History of Australia. Vol. V: 1942-1988. The Middle Way.
June 1, 1994... 'If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.' Abraham Lincoln in the 'House Divided' speech might seem a long way in time from the question of near-contemporary history,...

La Chine au XX siecle. De 1949 a'aujourd'hui.
June 1, 1994... La Chine au XX siecle. De 1949 a aujourd'hui, ed. Marie-Claire Bergere, Lucien Bianco and Jurgen Domes (Paris: Fayard, 1990; pp. xv + 448. Pb. F150), evaluates the achievements of the Chinese Communist party from the triumphant declaration of...

The American 'Empire' and Other Studies of US Foreign Policy in a Comparative Perspective.
June 1, 1994... In a series of books and articles, Geir Lundestad, Director of the Nobel Institute in Oslo and Professor of History at the University of Tromso, has established himself as one of the foremost historians of the United States in Europe. The...

The Rise and Decline of the Nation State.
June 1, 1994... To write a history of the nation state, its nature, rise, problems, and apparent decline in the second half of the twentieth century, would be a project of great interest, requiring an author"of wide learning and power. Perhaps some courageous...

Jews, Idols and Messiahs. The Challenge from History.
June 1, 1994... Strictly speaking, the new book by Lionel Kochan, Jews, Idols and Messiahs. The Challenge from History (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990; pp. 231. [pounds]35) is not a work of historical scholarship, but rather an attempt to isolate certain trends...

Schweiz im Wandel. Studien zur neueren Gesselschaftsgeschichte. Festschrift fur Rudolf Braun zum 60. Geburtstag.
June 1, 1994... A normal Festschrift is a collection of hastily assembled articles linked only by the writers' affection for (or dependence on) the great scholar whose smiling face appears opposite the title page. Schweiz im Wandel. Studien zur neueren...

The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Vol. XII: Lichfield.
June 1, 1994... In 1801 Lichfield had a population of just under 5,000 people. A moderate-sized market town with a certain level of gentility, it was the location of one of England's most ancient cathedrals. It had been the seventh-century see of the Mercian...