...Howard R. Marraro Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 AMERICAN OPINION ON ITALY S ANNEXATION OF VENETIA IN 1866 HOWARD R. MARRARO AFTER THE death of Prime Minister Cavour in June, 1861, the prominent position which he had occupied in the political affairs of Europe passed to Otto...

...Rodolfo Acuña Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest . By Tutorow Norman E. . Palo Alto : Chadwick House, Publishers, Ltd. , 1978 . Pp. xi , 320 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 375 promise calculated...

...Richard N. Current Slavery and the Annexation of Texas . By Merk Frederick , with the collaboration of Merk Lois Bannister . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1972 . Pp. xiv , 290 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The South Atlantic Quarterly scholar...

... people and its remote situation in the mountains and swamps south of the main Caucasus range. Finally, however, the position of Georgia became untenable, and it was annexed by Russia early in the nineteenth century. In this definitive, well-written book Dr. Lang has set forth the circumstances leading up...

... this review appears. It is a good book designed for serious scholars. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL JAMES L. GODFREY Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest. By Norman E. Tutorow. Palo Alto: Chadwick House, Publishers, Ltd., 1978. Pp. xi, 320. $12.95...

.... If Blassingame has not really proven that assertion, he has produced a study that no person who is seriously interested in the sub­ ject of American slavery can ignore. DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN Slavery and the Annexation of Texas. By Frederick Merk, with the collaboration of Lois Bannister Merk. New York...

... are more misunderstood. Historians, largely dominated by New England thought which saw nothing but evil in any project that would extend the slave power, have cast a slur upon the entire movement to annex Texas. And the public conscience, highly sensitive to criticism, and priding itself on the integrity...

... could put the protestations of Germany to a practical test. And if Germany should not annex nor desire to annex foreign territory, a re­ action against the present opinion of Germany might easily take place. Naturally the actual annexation of territory by Germany is contingent upon a victory more...

...James G. Randall Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 Senator Bagby of Alabama James G. Randall, Instructor in History in Syracuse University Looked at as a stage in the slavery controversy, the period be­ ginning with the struggle over the annexation of Texas, extending through...

... Book Reviews 153 well as works in the languages of Western Europe. His conclusions refute widely held beliefs about the annexation of Georgia, for he presents overwhelming evidence to show that the initiative came from the Georgians themselves and that the Russians were reluctant to extend their power...

...: How could it maintain control over the territories without absorbing the 6896 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 102:4 / sheet 20 of 257 huge Palestinian population? If Israel were simply to annex the territo- ries and make the inhabitants citizens, it would cease...

... to be what it had to be, Jung ceased further building. Prior to that time, the tower had seemed complete in 1923 when the first round section was built; in 1927 when a connecting passage and a turreted annex were added; in 1931 when Jung extended the annex so that he might have a room private to himself...

... well as works in the languages of Western Europe. His conclusions refute widely held beliefs about the annexation of Georgia, for he presents overwhelming evidence to show that the initiative came from the Georgians themselves and that the Russians were reluctant to extend their power beyond...

... James s development, particularly in his last or late period, towards a view of life I propose to call religious humanist. The wish to annex James to a moral tradition has unmistakably inspired the explication of The Golden Bowl. The Prince is redeemed by being brought, through Maggie s...

... planned as a supplementary volume to her Three Traditions of Moral Thought and that two concluding chapters were to have set out a hypothesis about James s development, particularly in his last or late period, towards a view of life I propose to call religious humanist. The wish to annex James...

... to know it. It may have been wholly consistent, once the people had been sub­ stituted for the divine-right monarch as the source of legitimacy, to annex Avignon and to incorporate Alsace into the new France of the French. The pope and the emperor saw it in a different light, and they had...

... by the slavery issue and the Civil War, and its revival during the Johnson-Grant Administration lasted for only a short time. For thirty years after the close of the Civil War the movement was curbed by a national tradition against the annexation of territory separated from the United States by intervening ocean...

.... From its independence in 1844 to its third annexation to Spain in 1861, the story of the Dominican Republic revolves around the names of two generals, Pedro Santana and Buenaventura Baez, who alternated in control of the Repub­ lic. Occasionally a puppet of one or the other of them gained...

... that eventuality. Yet Israel was also unwilling, or unable, to annex the Occupied Territories not only because of opposition from the international community, but also because annexation would entail granting civil and political rights to the Palestinians living there. With annexation, the Palestinians would...

... as he shall hear of the acceptance by the Texas convention of the annexation reso- lutions of our Congress he is immediately to proceed with his whole command to the extreme western border...