Book reviews

• Published in: Diplomacy and statecraft 1998, Vol.9 (2), p.222-240
• Main Authors: Clarke, John, Berridge, G.R., Reid, Brian Holden, Kuramatsu, Tadashi, Dutton, D.J., Jones, Matthew, Kennedy, Greg, Heuser, Beatrice, Rodman, David
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0959-2296; 1557-301X
• DOI: 10.1080/09592299808406090

Susan Spens, George Stepney, 1663-1707: Diplomat and Poet (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. 1997). vii + 403pp. £35. ISBN 0-2276-7940-7. Jeremy Black, America or Europe? British Foreign Policy, 1739-63 (London: UCL Press. 1998). x + 220pp. £40. ISBN 1-85728-185-3. F.A.K. Yasamee, Ottoman Diplomacy: Abdülhamid II and the Great Powers, 1878-1888. Studies on Ottoman Diplomatic History VII (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1996). 293pp. ISBN 975-428-988-6. Charles Townshend, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). xii + 354pp., £25. IBSN 0-19-820427-2. David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie, Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997), xxv + 661pp. ISBN 0-87021-192-7. Richard S. Grayson, Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe: British Foreign Policy 1924-29 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997), xviii + 318pp., £37.50 hb. ISBN 0-7146-4758-6; £18.50 pb. ISBN 0-7146-4319-X. Barbara Rearden Farnham, Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). xiii + 313pp. £30 hb. ISBN 0-691-01158-3. Steven T. Ross, American War Plans 1941-1945 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997). xx + 224 pp. £27 hb. ISBN 0-7146-4634-2; £15 pb. ISBN 0-7146-4194-4. David Chuter, Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919-2001 (Oxford and Providence, RI: Berghahn. 1997). xi + 356 pp. Index. £45 hb. ISBN 1-57181-893-6. Stephen A. Kocs, Autonomy or Power? The Franco-German Relationship and Europe? Strategic Choices, 1955-1995 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995). 280 pp. Bibliography, index. £47.95 hb. ISBN 0-275-94890-0. Zach Levey, Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). xi + 203pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-2368-6.