ESSAYS & REVIEW ESSAYS
(incorporating BookNotes and Dual Reviews)
This section of the H-Diplo site hosts a variety of essays and other selected material from list discussion threads both new and old.
All essays are released under the terms of our copyright policy. These essays are in PDF format, which requires the free Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader). We provide a suggested citation format to assist in scholarly use of these article reviews.
Essayists: Kim Munholland
Title: Review of Irwin M. Wall. Les États-Unis et la guerre d’Algérie, préface de Georges-Henri Soutou, traduit de l’anglais par Philippe-Étienne Raviart
Publication Date: 10 January 2008
Essayist: William R. Keylor
Title: Review of Thérèse Delpech. Savage Century: Back to Barbarism.
Publication Date: 16 November 2007
Essayist: Kim Munholland
Title: Review of Charles Cogan, Diplomatie à la française, Préface d’Hubert Védrine, Traduit de l’anglais par Nicolas Rousselier
Publication Date: 15 November 2007
Fourteen Notes on the Very Concept of the Cold War [PDF] (An Essay for H-Diplo)
by Anders Stephanson, Columbia University
Lloyd Gardner's "Long Essay/Cold War Esay" [PDF] (Originally a review of John Lewis Gaddis's book We Now Know)
by Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University
George F. Kennan, 1904-2005 (An Essay for H-Diplo) [PDF]
by Anders Stephanson, Columbia University
posted to H-Diplo on 21 April 2005
"Did the Cold War Really End?" [PDF]
Remarks delivered by Stephen Cohen at the Cold War Conference at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow on
March 1, 2006.
posted to H-Diplo on 21 March 2006
Richard Hofstadter's 1964 Harper's Magazine essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" [PDF]
by Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University
posted on H-Diplo on 29 April 2006
François de Callières and the Literary/Rhetorical Dimensions of Diplomacy [PDF]
by Karl Schweizer, NJIT/Rutgers
posted on H-Diplo on 4 April 2007
Matt J. Schuman on Wilhelm von Humboldt. “On the Historian’s Task,” (1821) reprinted in History and Theory, 6:1 (1967) [PDF]
by Matt J. Schuman, Eastern Michigan University
posted on H-Diplo on 11 April 2007
Alistair Horne. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. With a new preface by the author. New York: New York Review of Books, 2006. [PDF]
a review essay by Irwin Wall, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside and Visiting Scholar, NYU
posted on H-Diplo on 26 April 2007
Review of Bernard Bruneteau. “L’Europe nouvelle” de Hitler: Une illusion des intellectuals de la France de Vichy [PDF]
by Sean M. Kennedy, University of New Brunswick
published by H-Diplo on 8 May 2007
Seth D. Armus. French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948): Critical Moments in a Complex History. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007 [PDF]
a review essay by Irwin Wall, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside and Visiting Scholar, NYU
published by H-Diplo on 11 June 2007
Review of Elizabeth Greenhalgh. Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War [PDF]
by Robert A. Doughty, United States Military Academy (Ret.)
published by H-Diplo on 13 June 2007
Review of R. Gerald Hughes. Britain, Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European Détente, 1949-1967. Cold War History Series, vol. 17. London: Routledge, 2007.
by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, France [PDF]
published by H-Diplo on 16 June 2007
OpEd Essay: "Whither Iraq?"
by Sally Marks, Independent Scholar [PDF]
posted on H-Diplo on 6 July 2007
David Dutton review of Lynn Olson, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2007, 436 pp. [PDF]
published by H-Diplo on 25 July 2007
Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism. How Americans are Seduced by War. (Book Note) [PDF]
by David Kaiser, Naval War College
posted to H-Diplo on 22 April 2005
"No Context At All," Review of Susan Butler, ed. My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. [PDF]
by Warren F. Kimball, Rbt. Treat Professor (emer.), Rutgers University and
the Citadel
published by H-Diplo on 3 November 2006 (this is an advance copy, used by permission, of a forthcoming review in the journal Diplomatic History)
Author's Response, Susan Butler, [PDF] posted on 6 November 2006
Review's Additional Comments, Warren F. Kimball, [PDF] posted on 7 November 2006
H-Diplo Dual Review of Jörg Friedrich. The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945. Trans. by Allison Brown. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 532 pp. Editorial remarks, afterword, photographs, bibliographical references, and index. ISBN 978-0-231-13380-7. [PDF]
by Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Emeritus, and Wilfried Wilms, University of Denver, with an introduction by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen
published by H-Diplo on 20 July 2007
Michael Creswell, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe. Harvard University Press, 2006. [PDF]
by Seth Armus, St. Joseph's College, New York
published by H-Diplo on 4 September 2007
Review of Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941. [PDF]
by Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Emeritus
published by H-Diplo on 4 November 2007
Review of Charles Cogan. Diplomatie à la française, Préface d’Hubert Védrine, Traduit de l’anglais par Nicolas Rousselier. Paris: Éditions Jacob-Duvernet, 2005. ISBN: 2-84724-093-4. 22.95€. French translation of Charles Cogan. French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with La Grande Nation. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, 2003. ISBN: 1-929223-52-8. [PDF]
by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota, Emeritus
published by H-Diplo on 15 November 2007
Review of Thérèse Delpech. Savage Century: Back to Barbarism. Trans. George Holoch. 232 pages. $27.95. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 2007. ISBN: 978-0-87003-233-2. [PDF]
by William R. Keylor, Boston University
published by H-Diplo on 16 November 2007
H-Diplo Dual Forum on David A. Bell. The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Houghton Mifflin: New York, 2007. $27.00, 0-618-34965-0. [PDF]
by Charles J. Esdaile and Charles S. Maier, with a response from the author (and further comment from Maier).
published by H-Diplo on 13 December 2007
Review of Irwin M. Wall. Les États-Unis et la guerre d’Algérie, préface de Georges-Henri Soutou, traduit de l’anglais par Philippe-Étienne Raviart. 464 pp. €29. Paris: Éditions Soleb, October 2006. ISBN: 978-2952372619. [PDF]
by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota, Emeritus (PDF)
published by H-Diplo on 10 January 2008
Suggested citation form: [Essay Author]. [Essay title]. [Review URL/URI]. Published by H-Diplo on [publication date].
Sample citation: Anders Stephanson. "Fourteen Notes on the Very Concept of the Cold War." http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/essays/stephanson-14notes.pdf. Published by H-Diplo on -- May 1996.
