Contemporary Review back issues from June 2000:
LATIN AMERICAN INTEGRATION AND THE FORMATION OF MERCOSUR.
Jun 01, 2000; ... A common cultural identity is a must for a group of independent states seeking integration in order to construct and sustain regional trade agreements. Historically, no such identity existed for Latin America (LA) outside the discourse of American foreign policy. Even Simon Bolivar's ...
WHAT VENICE ABHORS, HAVANA ADORES.
Jun 01, 2000; ... WHEN the tectonic plate of communism finally yielded and slid below that of capitalism, a fragment of the socialist crust broke off and stayed afloat. Cuba is the only communist nation in the western hemisphere, and one of the few remaining in the world. Its people must have a profound ...
BRITAIN'S DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES: 1971-2031.(Statistical Data Included)
Jun 01, 2000; ... "NEVER make predictions about the future'. Thus Lady Thatcher when asked to comment on John Major's unexpected election victory in 1992. As a generalization this is undoubtedly right. However there is one area in which we can make forecasts with some confidence: that of demographic change ....
REFLECTIONS ON THE WELFARE STATE.
Jun 01, 2000; ... THOSE old enough to remember what Britain was like, at least for them, before the Second World War, may find great difficulty in coming to terms with the changes, enormous by any standards and affecting everyone in every facet of their lives, whatever their sex, age, occupation, or that ...
THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF DR. SHIPMAN.
Jun 01, 2000; ... THE rogue doctor, the Hippocratic saviour turned hypocritic slayer, is a mercifully rare medical phenomenon in this country. Of doctors who commit murder within the context and confines of their private lives, and for personal reasons, there has never been any shortage, uxoricides mostly, ...
A FRENCH MARSHAL IN MOROCCO.
Jun 01, 2000; ... FRANCE'S colonial history has all too often been ignored or dismissed in the English-speaking world yet it has had great influence not only on Prance, but on large portions of Africa and Asia. One of the best ways to understand it is to describe the career of one of the greatest French ...
THE MALTESE CONNECTION.
Jun 01, 2000; ... MALTA? You are leaving Greece in December for Malta? Yes, in fact, we were. My wife and I had three good reasons. First, we had been in Greece for almost three months, and we had either to get a residence permit or leave the country. European Union citizens need not bother about residence ...
A SURVEY OF JEWISH-AMERICAN WRITING.(Critical Essay)
Jun 01, 2000; ... SINCE the publication of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man in 1944 and Alan Ginsberg's collection Howl and Other Poems in 1956. there has been a growing awareness that the contribution of Jewish American writers to mainstream literature has been significant. This is so evident that perhaps we are ...
GEORGE ORWELL'S FIRST PLAY.
Jun 01, 2000; ... IT'S not every day that a parent gets a chance to witness literary history being made at a school play, especially so if that parent's son has a leading part in it. I recall attending a performance, eight years ago, of a play entitled King Charles II by one Eric A. Blair. In 1932, this Mr ....
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... FOR about forty years in the middle of the last century, British intellectual and aesthetic life was invigorated by the rivalry and contrast between two figures of considerable stature, both devoted to the world of architecture, landscape, planning and townscape. They were Nikolaus Pevsner ...
ISRAEL AND MORDECHAI VANANU.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... The Woman from Mossad: The Torment of Mordechai Vananu. Peter Hounam. Vision Paperbacks. [pounds]9.99 p.b. 214 pages. ISBN 1-901250-05-9. Wrap it up how you like: Mordechai Vananu was a traitor. He was employed as a technician at Israel's secret nuclear factory at Dimona in the ...
THE PSYCHOLOGIST'S SEARCH FOR VICTIMS.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People. Tana Dineen. Constable. [pounds]14.99. 320 pages. ISBN 0-094-79790-0. The Canadian psychologist, Tana Dineen, is a passionate critic of the 'industry' in which she works. According to her, most ...
LIFE IN A UNITED GERMANY.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... Along the Wall and Watchtowers: A Journey Down Germany's Divide. Oliver August. HarperCollins. [pounds]17.99. 244 pages. ISBN 0-00-257043-2. I still remember being glued to the television in November 1989, when a short announcement was made that East German citizens were free ...
THE ROMANTIC STORY OF MILLS & BOON.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon. Joseph McAleer. Oxford University Press [pounds]25.00 322 pages ISBN 0-19-520455. At a time when the main focus of advertising is to promote brand recognition and loyalty, it is interesting to note that in the world of twentieth ...
JUSTICE AND THE MAGISTRATES' COURTS.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... They Call It Justice. Brian Lawrence. The Book Guild Ltd. [pounds]15.95.416 pages. ISBN 1-85776-372-6. This book is the result of the author's 36 years of experience as a magistrates' clerk, mostly in courts in the Thames Valley. It makes sobering reading. He finished his ...
LAURIE LEE: MYTH AND REALITY.(Review)
Jun 01, 2000; ... Laurie Lee. The Well-Loved Stranger. Valerie Grove. Viking. [pounds]20.00. 524 pages. ISBN 0-670-88177-5. 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' Laurie Lee's lyrical ...
John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty. Rose A. Melikan. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]45.00/US$74.95. 370 pages. ISBN 0-521-62395-2. Lord Eldon, one of the most important Lord Chancellors in modem British history, was a bugbear to liberal intellectuals, including ...
Russia after the Cold War.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Russia after the Cold War. Mike Bowker and Cameron Ross, editors. Longman. [pounds]15.99 p.b. 368 pages ISBN 0-582-36815-4. To many Westerners, Russia after the end of the Cold War appears a land of political instability, government corruption, border wars against Mohammedan fanatics, ...
Neanderthal: Neanderthal Man and the Story of Human Origins.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Neanderthal: Neanderthal Man and the Story of Human Origins. Paul Jordan. Sutton Publishing. [pounds]20.00/US$34.95. 239 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1934-5. The author has a good track record both as a writer on archaeology and as a producer of television programmes on scientific topics. This ...
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii. Yale University Press. [pounds]16.95. 198 pages. ISBN 0-300-08106-5. The Anglo-Russian authors of this book define it as 'a book about the ways in which language was used to define ...
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor. John Van Der Kiste. Sutton Publishing. [pounds]19.99/US$34.95. 244 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1941-8. John Van Der Kiste is one of the most popular and prolific authors of books on British and European royalty. Here he examines the life of one of Europe's ...
Twentieth Century Words.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Twentieth Century Words. John Ayto. Oxford University Press. [pounds]18.99. 626 pages. ISBN 0-19-860230-8. The English language is reputed to have the largest vocabulary of any language and the twentieth century has contributed some 5,000 new words. Partly this is due to the enormous ...
Reluctant Europeans: Britain and European Integration 1945-1998.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Reluctant Europeans: Britain and European Integration 1945-1998. David Gowland and Arthur Turner. Longman. [pounds]14.99 p.b. 303 pages. ISBN 0-582-36956-8. This examination of various governments' attitudes towards European integration emphasises the role of government and party politics ...
Who's Buried Where in England.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Who's Buried Where in England. Douglas Greenwood. Constable. [pounds]12.99.368 pages. ISBN 0-09-479310-7. This is the third edition of a title first published in 1982 and it remains an indispensable guide for anyone interested in English history. Some fifty new sites have been included and ...
Garrick.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Garrick. Ian McIntyre. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pounds]25.00. 678 pages. ISBN 0-713-99328-6. Along with Dr Johnson, David Garrick is one of the most remembered names from the eighteenth century. His fame as an actor, as well as a member of Dr Johnson's 'set,' survived his death ....
Richard I.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Richard I. John Gillingham. Yale University Press. [pounds]20.00. 378 pages. ISBN 0-300-07912-5. This latest release in Yale's 'English Monarch's series is by the Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics. Professor Gillingham first wrote about Richard I, the ...
Rembrandt's Eyes.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2000 ... Rembrandt's Eyes. Simon Schama. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pounds]30.00. 750 pages. ISBN 0-713-99384-7. Professor Schama has made his reputation as an expert on the history of the Netherlands. This book is built on Simon Schama's reputation as a 'great writer' and one must admit there ...