...Theodore Ropp The Great War for the Empire: The Culmination, 1760-1763 (The British Empire before the American Revolution, Volume VIII) . By Gipson Lawrence Henry . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1954 . Pp. xxxii , 313 , xlix . $7.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press...

...Theodore Ropp The Great War for the Empire: The Victorious Years, 1758-1760 ( The British Empire Before the American Revolution, Volume VII ). By Gipson Lawrence Henry . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1949 . Pp. xlviii , 467 , xxxvi . $7.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University...

...Theodore Ropp Night Work: The Story of Task Force 39 . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : Henry Holt and Co. , 1946 . Pp. 267 . $3.00 . Empire and the Sea . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : Henry Holt and Co. , 1946 . Pp. xv , 446 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke...

...Andreas Dorpalen The German People: Their History and Civilization from the Holy Roman Empire to the Third Reich . By Valentin Veit . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946 . Pp. 730 , xxxi . $6.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Robert S. Smith Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade . By Wilson Charles Morrow . New York : Henry Holt And Company , 1947 . Pp. 303 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 597 careful to hedge themselves with ifs...

...Roger Shaw SINEWS OF EMPIRE, 1943 ROGER SHAW WINSTON CHURCHILL is busy these days, but he never, no matter how rushed, forgets that he is a grade-A historian and student of the classics. Churchill knows his Imperium Romanum as well as his British Empire and his Statute of Westminster. Well he...

...Harold T. Parker The Empire and the Glory: Napoleon Bonaparte: 1800-1806 . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : William Sloane Associates, Inc. , 1949 . Pp. xvi , 535 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 496 The South Atlantic Quarterly analyze this paradox...

...Theodore Ropp Novels of Empire . By Howe Susanne . New York : Columbia University Press , 1949 . Pp. viii , 186 . $2.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 120 The South Atlantic Quarterly Arthurian Tradition and Chretien de Troyes. By Roger Sher­ man Loomis...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Star of Empire: A Study of Britain as a World Power, 1485–1945 . By Willcox William B. . New York : Alfred Knopf , 1950 . Pp. 399 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 135 is an unfortunate neglect of the central figure...

...Robert H. Woody Seat of Empire: The Political Role of Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg . By Bridenbaugh Carl . Williamsburg : Colonial Williamsburg , 1950 . Pp. ix , 85 . $1.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 345 own hands to become the kingmakers...

...Harry W. Porter Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 CHURCHILL AND THE EMPIRE Harry W. Porter WINSTON CHURCHILL arose in the House of Commons one day in June, 1947, to announce that his party would offer no opposition to the granting of dominion status to India. He was silencing his...

...Stephen John Hartnett; Laura Ann Stengrim 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim War Rhetorics: The National Security Strategy of the United States and President Bush’s Globalization-through-Benevolent-Empire In his...

...Moon-Ho Jung Although W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction has been recognized widely in recent decades as a seminal work in African American and US history, its radical critique of the US empire is rarely acknowledged. This essay explores the ways Du Bois carried out that wider critique. ©...

...John Milbank 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 John Milbank Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror Concerning the immediate aftermath...

...Robert H. Ferrell Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America’s Present Predicament along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative . By Williams William Appleman . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. 229 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke...

...Gerald W. Hartwig India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations Within the British Empire, 1890–1939 . By Gregory Robert G. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1971 . Pp. xviii , 555 . $24.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 165 life...

...Richard A. Preston 272 The South Atlantic Quarterly Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763. By Douglas Edward Leach. New York: Macmillan, 1973. Pp. xv, 566. $14.95. Louis Morton s series of volumes on the wars of the United States has now produced...

...Hans A. Schmitt Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Bismarck s Unfinished Empire Hans A. Schmitt For more than a century every generation grown to adulthood in the Western world has debated the virtues and weaknesses of Otto von Bismarck. In the course of this persistent dialogue...

...W. B. Hamilton The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Part I: Making of the Empire . By Carrington C. E. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1968 . Pp. xi , 542 . Cloth, $10.50 ; paper, $2.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 714...

... Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Fall of the Fulani Empire After a decade of political preparation the short-lived British Em­ pire in Nigeria came to an end, amid fanfares and in the presence of royalty, on October 1, 1960. Even the elaborate celebrations attendant...