mcilvaine.p65 180 College & Research Libraries March 2001 Selected Reference Books of 2000 Eileen McIlvaine This article follows the pattern set by the semiannual series initiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than fifty years ago and continued by Eugene Sheehy. Because the purpose of the list is to present a se­ lection of recent scholarly and general works, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of standard works is provided at the end of the articles. Code numbers (such as AC527) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Refer­ ence Books, 11th ed. (Chicago: ALA, 1996). Dictionaries De Mauro, Tullio. Grande dizionario italiano dell’uso. Torino: UTET, 2000. 6 vols. and 1 computer optical disc. L1.744.000 ( ISBN 88-02055238). Following the Garzanti dictionary com­ pleted last year, Grande dizionario della lin­ gua italiana moderna (Milano: Garzanti, 1998–1999. 5 vols. and 1 computer optical disc. L1.460.000), Italianists now have the option to acquire another multivolume Italian dictionary, also with a computer optical disk. The DeMauro dictionary, here under review, emphasizes the level of usage; each definition of a word is marked by usage level from basic, fre­ quent usage to technical and special use, dialect, or simply obsolete. The usage- level codes are conveniently explained inside the front and back covers. This dic­ tionary notes the year of first usage of the word and now includes obsolete words that originated in the thirteenth century. Both the Garzanti and the UTET dic­ tionaries provide a generous number of examples. As for presentation, the UTET comes in a slightly larger format so the font used is also a bit larger and the use of bold characters in subheadings makes it easier to locate a word or phrase. How­ ever, Garzanti has the more pleasing typeface. Libraries serving scientists and engineers may prefer UTET because it has more scientific and technical terms than Garzanti does. UTET also covers a wider time period and could be useful to students of early modern literature and history. Garzanti, on the other hand, excels in explaining modern and contem­ porary usage form Manzoni to the present. The CD-ROM versions of both dictio­ naries can be used easily in the current standard computer with the speed of 200 MHz or more and the memory of at least 64 MB. Libraries, which keep older equip­ ment, would have to upgrade to use the UTET CD-ROM version, which requires at least 32 MB of memory and the speed of 133 MHz. Garzanti can be used in an older machine with as modest a speed as 75 MHz. Eileen McIlvaine is Head of Reference in Butler Library at Columbia University; e-mail: mcilvain@columbia.edu. Although it appears under a byline, this list is a project of the reference depart­ ments of Columbia University Libraries and notes are signed with the initials of one of the following staff members: Barbara Sykes-Austin, Avery Library; Mary Cargill, Anice Mills, Robert H. Scott, Junko Stuveras, Sarah Spurgin Witte, Butler Library; Olha della Cava, Lehman Library; Elizabeth Davis, Mu­ sic Library. 180 mailto:mcilvain@columbia.edu Selected Reference Books of 2000 181 Two other recently published Italian dictionaries that take advantage of CD­ ROM technology are: Cortelazzo, Manlio. Il nuovo etimologico: DELI: Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiano (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1999. 1,856p. and 1 computer optical disc. L148.000). The CD-ROM version can be used with a 386 machine. Il vocabolario Treccani. 2d. ed. (Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 1997. 5 vols. and 1 computer optical disc; 1st ed., Vocabolario della lingua italiana. 1986. Guide AC527). The CD-ROM version also can be used in an older machine but has an annoying password protection: to activate the database one has to call Italy to get a password.—J.S. Religion Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/ Deuterocanonical Books and the New Testament. Ed. Carol Meyers, Toni Craven, and Ross S. Kraemer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 592p. $40 (ISBN 0-395-70936-9). LC 99-089577. Conceived “as a way to collect the best and most up-to-date scholarship—femi­ nist biblical scholarship—in a single, user- friendly book” (Pref.), Women in Scripture has many useful features. There are in­ troductory essays on the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, the New Testament, feminist biblical scholarship, and names and naming in the Biblical world. The women are listed in thr ee sections. The first, Named Women, lists entries for 205 women from Abigail to Zosara. Entries include a note on the meaning or derivation of the name, scriptural references, and discussions about the woman’s role and significance, a list of cross-references to related women, and a few citations for further reading. The second, and largest section, Un­ named Women, lists more than 600 un­ named women, arranged by scriptural reference beginning with the Hebrew Bible. These entries are uneven. There is a disappointing entry for Lot’s wife: “When the large cities of the plain of Jor­ dan are destroyed because of their people’s lack of discernment of good and bad, Lot’s wife looks back and turns into a pillar of salt. Salt preserves her in a fixed state. Is this symbolic of her still being tied to the security that the city culture is as­ sumed to offer? “ (p. 179). The entry does not even cite the New Testament allusion to Lot’s wife. On the other hand, several pages later, the entry for Hebrew Female Babies in Egypt is excellent, with several scholarly references. The final section, Female Deities and Personifications, lists named and un­ named figures alphabetically, including Artemis, Bride of the Lamb, and Woman Wisdom. Women in Scripture also includes a list of additional ancient sources, a bib­ liography, and a list of illustration cred­ its, but no index. Readers looking for in­ formation about specific unnamed women (say the foolish and wise virgins) or women listed by profession or nation­ ality, will not find them here, unless they remember the exact scriptural reference. Although the citations are uneven and the lack of an index is maddening, this dic­ tionary is still very useful. It can replace Herbert Lockyer ’s Women in the Bible (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1967, 1988. 321p.) but hold on to Edith Deen’s All of the Women of the Bible (New York: Harper, 1955, 1988. 409p.). It has an index and devotes three pages to Lot’s wife.— S.S.W. Literature Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Matthias Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 2 vols. $167 (ISBN 1­ 57958-138-2). LC 00-710971. This is similar to the usual format in this publisher ’s growing series of encyclope­ dias: an alphabetical listing of entries, with a short essay for each followed by a brief bibliography. The subjects in this en­ cyclopedia range from individual literary works to broad themes, such as women or travel, although, oddly, there is no en­ try for poetry. 182 College & Research Libraries March 2001 Pressing all of German literature into two volumes is not easy, and the Editor ’s Note strikes an unusually political tone, stating that “scholars of different ideologi­ cal backgrounds … had to be negotiated [with] in a democratic fashion to come to terms with the conflicting claims of vari­ ous interest groups” (p. vii). The entries themselves tend to be somewhat unwieldy, ranging from the densely scholarly to the trendily popu­ lar, sometimes in a single subject. The page for the Nibelungenlied, for example, starts by assuming the reader is familiar with other German epics (“Hartmann von Aue’s Erec or Iwein might be said to fit the same generic mold as Ulrich von Zatzikhoven’s Lanzelet” [p. 758]) and ends with a discussion of a 1967 Peter O’Toole film. The entries on individual authors, too, seem short on the basic facts an under­ graduate needs and long on interpreta­ tion. The entry on Georg Trakl talks about the importance of his life on his work, but there is no mention of his sister; instead, the student can read that “the late poems in particular are cited as language con­ structs of psychopathological processes” (p. 943). The incongruousness between the in­ tended audience (students) and the sub­ stance (academic prose) makes this a dif­ ficult work to use, and librarians with questions on German literature would probably be better off starting with the Oxford Companion to German Literature (Guide BE1244) and any reasonable gen­ eral literary encyclopedia.—M.C. English Novel, 1770–1829: A Biblio­ graphical Survey of Prose Fiction Pub­ lished in the British Isles. Ed. Peter Garside, James Raven, and Rainer Schowerling. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2000. 2 vols. $250 (ISBN 0-19­ 818317-8 (vol. 1.); 0-19-818318-6 (vol. 2)). LC 00-699952. This bibliography “records the first edi­ tions of all known novels in English pub­ lished in the British Isles between 1770– 1829 inclusive, and gives details of subsequent editions to 1850. Also in­ cluded are the first English translations in this period of novels originally pub­ lished elsewhere in Europe” (Introd.). Entries, which are grouped by year of publication and then alphabetically by author, include full title, imprint, pagi­ nation, format, price, references to con­ temporary reviews, the location and call number of the copy examined, and ref­ erences to other copies and catalogs. The notes, which often quote from reviews, mention attributions, provenance, illus­ trations, and other bibliographical fea­ tures. Two of the best things about this bibli­ ography are the excellent essays in each volume. In volume 1, 1770–1799, “The Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age,” James Raven addresses a num­ ber of topics, including defining the novel; authors, translations, and transla­ tors; the English novel abroad; bookseller- publishers and printers; production and marketing; design; and reception, read­ ers, and reviewers. In volume 2, 1800– 1829, Peter Garside’s essay, “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal,” discusses the resources for bibliographical research in addition to the topics covered in Raven’s essay. Both essays are enhanced by useful tables and copious citations to primary and second­ ary sources. Appendixes “include representative examples of those kinds of work which have been excluded as not matching the requirements for entry in this volume” (vol.2, p. 695) and include children’s ‘nov­ els’ and tales, shorter tales & miscellanies, didactic fiction, historical memoirs, and selected nonfiction associated with the novels. The two volumes are indexed separately by author and translator, title, bookseller and printer, and for names mentioned in the notes.—S.S.W. Harvell, Tony A. Index to Twentieth-Cen­ tury Spanish Plays: In Collections, An­ thologies, and Periodicals. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2000. 367p. $59.50 (ISBN 0­ 8108-3729-3). LC 99-04624. Selected Reference Books of 2000 183 This useful work indexes twentieth-cen­ tury Spanish plays, including those writ­ ten in Galician, Catalan, and Basque, ap­ pearing in nearly 700 sources. Although the author lists works by Spanish writers that appeared in Latin American journals, Latin American playwrights are not in­ cluded. It is arranged by author and has a title index. English translations are in­ cluded, listed under both the original and the translated title. The vast majority of the plays have not been translated, and it would have been useful for harried librar­ ians to have an easier way to find trans­ lations, but this is an extremely detailed and useful index. I only hope the com­ piler is working on a similar index for Latin American playwrights.—M.C. The Companion to African Literatures. Ed. Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Pr., 2000. 335p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-253-33633-3). LC 99-30001. This well-written, comprehensive guide to contemporary African literature writ­ ten in English or widely available in trans­ lation provides a thoughtful examination of this burgeoning field. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include au­ thors writing in English or authors writ­ ing in an African language whose works are available in English translation, se­ lected works, and about sixty topics and themes, such as apartheid, censorship, and francophone–anglophone literary relations. Although entries are unsigned, a substantial list of contributors includes an international mix of “distinguished scholars and critics of African literature” (Acknowledgments). To help clarify the material for read­ ers, the editors provide a country-author guide, identifying writers by nationality; a list of topics and themes that appear throughout the text; and two maps of Africa: one showing nations with their dates of independence and the other showing African languages by region. The writing is scholarly, authoritative, and thorough, offering critical analysis of an author’s work intertwined with biog­ raphy, social conditions, and a chronol­ ogy of works. An asterisk indicates a cross-reference to related names and terms. The entries on thematic topics are usually longer analytical essays, often subdivided by region. In addition, there are separate entries for selected African languages with published literatures (e.g., Gikuyu, Hausa, Xhosa, and Zulu), with an emphasis on works available in En­ glish. Works in Afrikaans, Portuguese or Lusophone literature, and French that are mostly available in translation also get separate entries. The volume concludes with a bibliography of suggested further reading. A considerable effort has been made to present this enormous body of work in an organized, accessible format. The editors have done an admirable job, and this excellent resource will be a welcome addition in the field of African litera­ ture.—A.M. Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary. Ed. Helene Henderson and Jay P. Pederson. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2000. xxix, 1,037p. $70 (ISBN 1-55888-426-2). LC 99-41091. Subtitle: A Compendium to more than 500 literary, critical, and theatrical move­ ments, schools, and groups from more than 80 nations, covering the novelists, poets, short-story writers, dramatists, es­ sayists, theorists, and works, genres, tech­ niques, and terms associated with each movement. This one-volume compendium of more than 500 major and minor literary move­ ments associated with twentieth-century world literature offers a general introduc­ tion to the history, philosophy, and artis­ tic tenets of various movements. In addi­ tion to literary movements, it includes lit­ erary criticism and major theater groups associated with particular movements. Although its greatest appeal lies in its in­ ternational perspective allowing compari­ son between movements and schools in different countries, this volume also is valuable for its broad coverage of the topic. 184 College & Research Libraries March 2001 Major movements such as Modernism, Realism, and Naturalism are given the most coverage, with longer essays, time lines, and subdivisions for individual authors and works within a movement as well as for individual countries. This seems especially helpful for a student wanting to compare Modernism in En­ gland and Ireland with Modernism in France or Italy. The editors have chosen to include Symbolism, Naturalism, and Realism which began in the nineteenth century but “exerted a great influence on twentieth-century letters” (Introd.). Indi­ vidual novelists, poets, dramatists, short- story writers, theorists, essayists, genres, techniques, and terms also are identified. Each entry ends with a list of further read­ ings. Cross-references and a detailed al­ phabetical table of contents allow easy access to the text. There are four useful appendixes: a time line of literary movements by decade from the 1800s through the 1900s; a chro­ nology of movements by country; a list of journals cited; and a list of literary Web sites such as the Modern Language As­ sociation and the Academy of American Poets. Sites that provide electronic texts also are noted. Following the appendixes are four separate indexes: movements, author, title, and country/nationality. These varied access points are especially helpful with so many subdivisions within the dictionary’s alphabetical entries. One oddity is the scholarly tone of the preface by Rene Wellek, which seems slightly out of place in a work aimed spe­ cifically at “students in late high school and early college” (Introd.). Nonetheless this reference work is recommended for libraries serving undergraduates and those students interested in twentieth- century literature.—A.M. Film BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. Ed. Richard Taylor, et al. London: BFI Publishing, 2000. 288p. il. £45 (ISBN 0-85170-752-1). This handy guide, edited by Richard Tay­ lor and others for the British Film Institute’s series of cinema companions, is something that all collections with holdings of Soviet and East European film or of literature on the topic will want to acquire. It also is a title that many indi­ viduals with an interest in this field will want to have in their personal collection. In approximately 350 articles, a group of eleven specialists on cinema and Rus­ sian and East European affairs, provides us with: surveys of the history of film in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hun­ gary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia (but, curiously, not Russia and the Soviet Union, which are heavily represented in all other categories); brief biographies of key directors, actors, critics, writers, and other film figures; critical entries on key genres and artistic movements; and sketches of important institutions—stu­ dios, schools, periodicals, and profes­ sional organizations. Introductory essays on East European cinema in general and Russian cinema (in the 1990s only) and a four-page bibliography at the end of the volume round out what is, for such a slim volume, an impressively comprehensive guide to the major elements of the cin­ ema in Eastern Europe and the lands of the former Soviet Union. The content updates and adds new kinds of information to what has been available during the past decade in the Handbook of Soviet and East European Films and Filmmakers, edited by Thomas J. Slater (1992. Guide BH271) and Grzegorz Balski’s Directory of Eastern European Film­ makers and Films, 1945–1991 (1992. Guide BH212n) but does not supersede them. The conscious desire to produce a volume accessible to individual readers has meant a slightly more selective approach in some areas. Thus, for all countries covered, ex­ cept Russia and the former Soviet Union, the BFI volume has significantly fewer bi­ ographies than either of the older vol­ umes, a difference accentuated in the case of the Balski work by the latter’s exclu­ sive focus on directors. On the other hand, the biographical articles in the work un­ der review here are almost always longer than those provided by Slater or Balski Selected Reference Books of 2000 185 (although only Balski appears to provide anything like a comprehensive filmography for individual directors). The BFI volume’s coverage of genres, institu­ tions, and the like is a unique contribu­ tion whereas the Slater volume offers lengthier surveys of national cinemas, considerably more bibliography, and some unique features, such as chronologi­ cally arranged filmographies of key works for individual countries and a gen­ eral chronology of political and cultural events. The works also vary in their coverage of particular regions. Nearly half the ar­ ticles in the BFI companion are devoted to individuals from, or topics concerning, Russia or other regions of the former So­ viet Union, an emphasis far greater than is found in either of the earlier volumes. Taylor and colleagues omit any reference to East German cinema, covered by both Slater and Balski, and provide only cur­ sory treatment of Albania, which is cov­ ered more extensively by Balski (but omit­ ted altogether by Slater). If the BFI volume has any real draw­ back, other than the curious omission of a comprehensive survey article on Rus­ sian and Soviet cinema, it is the lack of an index of film titles, an obvious starting point for many in search of information in the area. Happily, both Slater and Balski provide such a finding tool, the former in English translation, the latter in both English and the original language. In short, readers seeking comprehensive in­ formation on East European and Russian film should give serious consideration to all three works. But any collection that fails to add this latest contribution to the literature will be the poorer for it.—B.H.S. Music Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana. Ed. Emilio Casares Rodicio, José López-Calo, and Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta. [Madrid]: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 1999. 10 vols. projected, 6 vols. published. About $85/vol. (ISBN 8480483032). LC 00-697159. Sponsored by SGAE, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores and INAEM, Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escenicas y de la Música of the Spanish Ministry of Edu­ cation and Culture. This encyclopedia is a major work on music in Spain and Spanish-America. Coverage encompasses twenty countries selected on the basis of their shared Span­ ish heritage. Overseen by an editorial team based in Madrid, 600 musicologists representing every country have contrib­ uted about 24,000 entries on classical, popular, and indigenous music. Headings include biographical and ter­ minological entries filed in one alphabeti­ cal sequence, and all are identified with the contributor ’s name or initials. Bio­ graphical entries (comprising about 60% of sampled pages) include composers, performers, dancers, musicologists, peda­ gogues, librettists, instrument makers, critics, patrons, publishers and printers, and designers, among others. Termino­ logical entries (35%) include terms asso­ ciated with classical, traditional, and popular music; ethnomusicological con­ cepts; and words related to music forms and genres. Geographical entries (5%) include countries, regions, and cities. Composers form the majority of bio­ graphical entries. These include persons born or residing in Spain and Spanish America, as well as those born outside these geographic areas who have contrib­ uted to the development of music in one of the countries. For important people, articles include a biography, works, and bibliography in order of publication from earliest to most recent. Where applicable, works include musical writings and di­ dactic works. Lists of musical works for composers are extensive and exhaustive and, in many cases, categorized by genre. Discographies are included for perform­ ers and entries on popular music. Terminological entries include those related to classical music, with special emphasis on contemporary art music. Those related to traditional and popular music as well as urban popular music are included. In presenting terms and con­ 186 College & Research Libraries March 2001 cepts relating to ethnomusicology, treat­ ment focuses on geographic regions and ethnic groups, as well as their genres, in­ struments, ceremonies, dances, and mu­ sical formations. Terms of a lexicographic nature, including those relating to forms and genres especially important to the Spanish and Spanish-American character, comprise a significant portion of ethnomusical entries. In articles on broad general terms, the definition is followed by the term’s use within specific coun­ tries. “Normas de uso”/”Using the Dictio­ nary” appears in every volume in both Spanish and English. Abbreviations and codes representing repositories are listed at the front of each volume. Volume con­ tributors and their country of origin ap­ pear before that volume’s text. With the exception of medieval texts, documents in Old Spanish have been replaced by modern equivalents with respect to accen­ tuation, punctuation, and spelling. En­ tries with cross-references are interfiled with headings and include a brief defini­ tion and the heading being referred to. More than 2,000 illustrations, many pre­ viously unpublished, provide a visual complement to the wealth of textual ma­ terial. An important work, this encyclopedia belongs in all collections serving humani­ ties, arts, and music because of its focus on music and in social science and area collections because of its emphasis on a shared and distributed cultural heri­ tage.—E.D. Political Science Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements. Ed. Christopher Hewitt and Tom Cheetham. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2000. 366p. il. $75 (ISBN 1-576-07007-7). LC 00-24975. This topical encyclopedia carefully delim­ its its scope and within that scope aims to be comprehensive. Included are three kinds of separatist movements: those that are confined to one country, those that seek to unite or reunite their group with a neighboring territory, and those that make a claim on a territory because of history or ethnicity. The time span is 1945 to the present. Although the focus is on movements that have played a significant role in domestic politics, employed vio­ lence, or caused military confrontations, some less-noted movements also have been included to ensure comprehensive­ ness. Following these guidelines, the editors have amassed about 300 cases of ethnic separatism and irredentism occurring in three main time frames and geographic areas: post-Colonial Africa and Asia, West­ ern Europe and North America, and post- Communist Russia and Eastern Europe. There are entries for disputed territo­ ries, ethnic groups, individual countries, separatist leaders, political parties and organizations, concepts and issues, and even some individual events, as well as for international bodies when they have played a major role. The arrangement is alphabetical, the work is illustrated with photographs and pertinent maps, and most entries con­ clude with “see also” cross-references and one or more bibliographic citations. The Encyclopedia includes a thoughtful intro­ duction, a series of regional separatist movement maps, a chronology of events, an extensive bibliography, and a back-of­ the-book index. This encyclopedia is a solid, scholarly reference tool that brings together, in an easily accessible format, information scat­ tered throughout myriad sources on a topic of great relevance to our times and, as such, would be a valuable addition to any library’s reference collection.—O.dC. History Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Ro­ man World. Ed. Richard J.A. Talbert, in collaboration with Roger S. Bagnall. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Pr., 2000. 3 vols., with CD-ROM. il. $350 (ISBN 0-691-03169-X). LC 00-030044). Contents: Atlas. 175p. (102 maps, with gazetteer) 33 x 48 cm (13 x 19") $250; Map-by-Map Directory, 2 vols. (1,383p.) $150. http:collection.�O.dC Selected Reference Books of 2000 187 “This Atlas and its accompanying Direc­ tory finally provide an essential tool that everyone with an interest in classical an­ tiquity has sought in vain for more than a century” (Pref.). That tool is nothing less than the first complete cartographic record of the civilization of the Greco- Roman world from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and North Africa. The atlas volume contains a CD-ROM which, although technically unnecessary for accessing the gazetteer (part of the printed atlas volume), can substitute, however clumsily, for the printed Map­ by-Map Directory. The CD itself contains no maps: it is solely a search engine for the textual portions of the set. The maps themselves are topographi­ cal representations of the ancient physi­ cal landscape, based on modern maps identified in the list of map bases (p. xxix). They locate Greek and Roman sites dat­ ing from the Archaic Period (before 550 B.C.) to the Late Antique (300–640 A.D.), with colored lines under each site name keyed to six chronological periods. Ma­ jor and minor roads, earthworks, aque­ ducts, tunnels, bridges, spas, and canals are among the many man-made features indicated on the physical landscape. This vast scholarly work took twelve years to complete. The complexity of the task is evidenced not only in the Preface and Introduction, where the origins, ob­ jectives, scope, and compilation method­ ologies are explained, but also in the list of contributors (84), reviewers (95), and cartographers (22) who worked under the guidance of the editor and regional “vic­ ars” to carry it through to completion. A “Guidelines for Reference” section further describes the creation of the cartographic data, line work, point symbols, ancient and modern names, and periodization that are to be found in the map key. The directory correlates the maps with alpha­ betical lists of place names and provides grid location, period of settlement, mod­ ern name, and bibliographical references to scholarly research on the site, as well as a general introduction to the region covered by each map. Additional features are described and a FAQ is provided at the Ancient World Mapping Center Web site at http://www.unc.edu/depts/ awmc/bafaq.html. As this is purely an atlas, there are no descriptions of the sites themselves, pho­ tographs, digital maps, or hyperlinks on the CD-ROM to outside sources. One would still need to consult either the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Guide DA105) for any description of a site’s history, characteristics, or cultural importance, or the bibliographical refer­ ences in the Directory, which are the au­ thoritative sources for the inclusion of a site. This is undoubtedly the atlas to con­ sult in any study of the Greek and Ro­ man world, superseding any previous publications and a fitting tool for schol­ ars in the new millennium.—B.S.-A. Dictionnaire historique de la France sous l’Occupation. Ed. Michèle and Jean- Paul Cointet. Paris: Tallandier, 2000. 732p. il. 349F (ISBN 2235022340). LC 00-357599. Most likely, this is the first French-lan­ guage historical dictionary that deals di­ rectly with the German occupation (1940– 1944) and is a recent addition to the small number of historical dictionaries of the era. RLIN/Eureka currently lists five titles on the period, all published since 1994. This dictionary covers the period be­ tween 1938 and 1945. Arranged alphabeti­ cally by topic, the articles are predomi­ nantly biographical and cover Europeans from Marshal Pétain to Coco Chanel. How­ ever, the book includes concise and useful surveys of industries, newspapers, the arts, major events, and institutions of the period. Most items are short to medium in length, one page or less. The volume is embellished with a number of black-and­ white photographs. The articles are writ­ ten by thirteen teachers and researchers from French universities, an army histo­ rian, a journal editor, and a museum cura­ tor. All the articles are signed and accom­ panied by short bibliographies. The appen­ dixes contain a map, a chronological table, and a general bibliography. http://www.unc.edu/depts 188 College & Research Libraries March 2001 Recommended for college and univer­ sity libraries where twentieth-century French history is offered.—J.S. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Ed. Gino Moliterno. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. xxiv, 677p. $140 (ISBN 0-415-14584-8). LC 99­ 38356. A sibling of similar titles covering France, Great Britain, and Germany published in 1999, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Ital­ ian Culture is written and compiled by an international team of scholars from Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and Italy. It aims to address the need for a broader European studies program that shows “greater and more diversified in­ terest in contemporary Italy” (Introd.) by presenting “a comprehensive reference work in English which could offer accu­ rate, concise and up-to-date information on a wide range of topics in a readily-ac­ cessible format.” The encyclopedia mainly covers the post-1945 period in Italy proper, although there are some references to Italian cul­ ture overseas. The editors have inter­ preted “culture” in “the very broadest sense” in keeping with the policy of the Routledge series. Simply put, more than 900 entries cover the widest spectrum of “a distinctively Italian ‘way of life,’” in­ cluding popular culture with articles such as comics, television, and pop music but also economy and international relations, food, and fashion. Short- to medium-length articles are signed and accompanied by a bibliogra­ phy for further reading. Bibliographic notes mainly refer to English-language sources but include important Italian-lan­ guage material as well. The book has a thematic entry list and a detailed index. Recommended for academic and public libraries.—J.S. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Com­ munism. Ed. Richard Frucht. Garland Reference Library of Social Science, v. 751. New York, London: Garland, 2000. 958p. $145 (ISBN 0-8153-0092-1). LC 00-21517. The greatly increased opportunities for research on, and interaction with, East­ ern Europe since 1989 and the chronically low level of American understanding of the affairs of this region make the appear­ ance of an accessible, authoritative, En­ glish-language reference of this kind, ex­ plicitly aimed at educators (and by extension, the academic community and educated public in general), a particularly welcome event. Edited by Richard Frucht of Northwest Missouri State University and representing the collective efforts of nearly 250 academic specialists, this one- volume encyclopedia is a wide-ranging survey of the history and culture of Po­ land, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugosla­ via, Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria in the period from 1815 to 1989/90, an era char­ acterized, with a few exceptions such as the brief and turbulent period between the two world wars, by diminished or nonexistent national sovereignty and the domination of large multinational states or state systems centered outside this re­ gion. In geographical terms, the work covers the countries of the recently van­ ished Eastern Bloc, with the exception of the lands of the German Democratic Re­ public. (That exclusion, although fre­ quently encountered in works of this kind and not without grounds, is nonetheless regrettable, at least for the postwar period, because the place of East Germany in the Soviet-dominated state systems of twen­ tieth-century Eastern Europe was a criti­ cal one and a recounting of its history, institutions, and interaction with its neighbors is important for a full under­ standing of the most recent fifty years of the region.) The work is arranged as an alphabeti­ cal collection of more than a thousand articles on a range of topics. Its center­ piece is a group of seven longer articles surveying the history of each of the seven aforementioned countries. Supplement­ ing these essays are briefer entries profil­ ing important historical events, key re­ gions, cities, and other geographical fea­ Selected Reference Books of 2000 189 tures, leading political and cultural fig­ ures, languages and language groups, political parties, social and cultural insti­ tutions, political concepts, and survey articles on a variety of topics, including social classes, women, industrialization, the environment, art, literature, music, film, philosophy, the press, and émigré communities, sometimes focusing on an individual country, sometimes treating the region a whole. An effort has been made to formulate headings so that they will group together (Communist Party of… Economic Development in … ) whereas others cluster around the name of a country or nationality. At the same time, users may have difficulty locating some articles buried under headings that will mean nothing to nonspecialists: “January Uprising (1863)”; “Manuscripts, The (Czech)” and “United Principalities,” for example. Each article concludes with a list of suggested readings (not always in English) and cross-references (usually several) to related articles elsewhere in the encyclopedia. An index at the back of the volume provides further access to the material. Naturally, a one-volume work of such wide scope cannot devote more than se­ lective attention to specific events and phenomena, and an individual reader is sure to find a topic or two that he or she would have included. That said, the edi­ tors have done an impressive job of ad­ dressing the key issues. A few articles, particularly those for cities and religious and ethnic groups, could perhaps have benefited from a sharper focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A few others, particularly the broad compara­ tive surveys of social groups and ques­ tions, really required lengthier treatment to be able to offer substantive content. Such minor considerations aside, this is clearly an essential reference tool for libraries that provide patrons with infor­ mation on modern Eastern Europe. Al­ though it is designed for use by nonspe­ cialists, it is sure to be useful as a quick reference for specialists as well, particu­ larly those who quickly want to check key information about a country that is not their primary area of expertise. Were it not for the price, it would make an attractive personal reference tool as well.—R.H.S. Van Hartesveldt, Fred. The Boer War: His­ toriography and Annotated Bibliography. Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders, no. 24. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000. 255p. $79.50 (ISBN 0-313-30627­ 3). LC 00-020398. The author, a military historian, has com­ piled an annotated bibliography of books, and a few periodical articles, of items re­ lating to the Boer War. The bibliography begins with several brief essays discuss­ ing background and historiography and evaluating the various interpretations of this complex war. The items cited are almost exclusively military; the publisher ’s series, after all, is entitled Battles and Leaders. This does limit the usefulness in an academic library where students are often looking for so­ cial and political implications. There is nothing, for instance, on Jingoism, on the press, on the pro-Boer movement, or on the foreign reaction against the British involvement and its implications on the beginning of World War I. The books and articles are arranged alphabetically by author, which makes it somewhat cumbersome to use. Anyone looking up the Jameson Raid must flip back and forth about thirty times. In ad­ dition, the many contemporary accounts are not separated from secondary works. At the price, this probably belongs only in libraries specializing in military his- tory.—M.C. Archaeology Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Linda Ellis. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1707. New York: Garland, 2000. 705p. il. $100 (ISBN 0-8153-1305-1). LC 99-39140. “This volume covers archaeological meth­ odology from the processes of archaeo­ logical site formation, site discovery, site excavation, site and object documenta­ 190 College & Research Libraries March 2001 tion, on-site conservation and packaging of finds, to post-excavation analysis” (Introd.). In this and the interpretive tech­ niques that form the basis of theory de­ velopment, it is similar in scope and pur­ pose to the Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology (reviewed below). Where they differ is in the emphasis placed in this work on specific methodologies and prac­ tical analytical techniques in an alphabeti­ cal arrangement of signed entries of vary­ ing length. A subject guide substitutes for a table of contents, organizing the entries that fol­ low under large categories beginning with site formation, exploration, and ex­ amination, and then proceeding in a me­ thodical sequence to excavation, postexcavation analysis of finds, quanti­ tative methods and data management, archaeological disciplinary theory and area studies, and, finally, management and protective legislation of archaeologi­ cal resources. Terms such as stratification can be found in the first category, sieving in the next, animal remains, identification and analysis in the third section, and the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in the last. The entries listed under the theoretical cat­ egory can usefully be compared with those in the Dictionary of Archaeology by Shaw and Jameson (see below) for de­ scriptions of numerous interpretive ap­ proaches, such as behavioral, gender, and Marxist archaeology, for example. The last category in the subject guide is an alpha­ betical list of biographies of sixty archae­ ologists (including six women), 32 living and 28 deceased, that are considerably shorter than those in the Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists (also reviewed here), but which brings to the reader a convenient source for the work of many archaeologists practicing today. Most entries in all categories contain a list of further readings and cross-references to related topics. The illustrations are largely technical with numerous diagrams of analytical technologies (e.g., electron probe mi­ croanalysis, georadar, uranium-series dat­ ing) with maps and site plans, aerial pho­ tographs, and microscopy. A seventeen- page subject index and a five-page name index complete the volume.—B.S.-A. Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeol­ ogy. Ed. Graeme Barker. London, New York: Routledge, 1999. 2 vols. (1,219p.) il. $265 (ISBN 0-415-06448-1). LC 98­ 007621. This is the latest in a series of “Compan­ ion Encyclopedias” published by Routledge in the past decade on the sci­ ences and humanities. Earlier works cov­ ered anthropology, philosophy, psychol­ ogy, mathematics, medicine, theology, and politics. The thirty-four contributors to this set, nearly all from the United States and Brit­ ain, have written twenty-nine essays ar­ ranged in three parts. Part I, “Origins, Aims, and Methods,” examines theory, evidence, fieldwork, chronologies, envi­ ronment and landscape, people, struc­ tures, and artifacts. Part II, “Themes and Approaches,” covers culture, identity, society, settlement problems, agriculture, production and exchange, population, dynamics, and belief systems. Part III, “Writing Archaeological History,” ad­ dresses chronological issues of human evolution, the development of societal or­ ganization, state and empire formations, and “post-collapse” societies. Medieval Europe, Islam, colonialism, and industri­ alization are the subject of the last four historical essays. In his excellent general introduction, the editor discusses the basis of archaeol­ ogy as the study of the material culture of people and societies. The traditional dichotomy between the archaeologist’s use of material remains of past societies and the historian’s reliance upon a con­ temporary written record is altered with the observation that the material evidence of a World War II bunker or a nineteenth- century shipwreck is still within the prov­ ince of the discipline of archaeology, “not restricted to any particular period of the past or region of the world” (General Introd.). Therefore, it is intended that the essays are to “be read, not consulted” (Pref.) Selected Reference Books of 2000 191 by professional archaeologists, students, and interested laypersons, as to how ar­ chaeology is done, that the full range of the discipline—its tools, methodologies, and approaches—be placed in an overall context in order for its results to be un­ derstood. The volumes are well illustrated, with more than 250 drawings, photographs, maps, plans, tables, graphs, and dia­ grams. Each article ends with an exten­ sive list of references and a select bibliog­ raphy. A 22-page index is part of volume 2.—B.S.-A. Dictionary of Archaeology. Ed. Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 624p. il. $99.95 (ISBN 0-631-17423-0). LC 98-005900. A great number of dictionaries and ency­ clopedias already exist in the field of ar­ chaeology (e.g., Guide DA74-DA79), but as the editors acknowledge in their Pref­ ace, the aim of this one is not only “to provide readers with a reference tool for the terms, techniques and major sites in archaeology, but it is also intended to re­ flect the constant state of flux in the disci­ pline” (p. xii). It largely omits classical Greek and Roman history and sites, with the understanding that these are amply covered elsewhere, which allows more comprehensive treatment of such areas as China, Japan, and Oceania and longer articles on theory and methodology than are usually found in other short-entry dictionaries. There is a combination of one- or two- paragraph entries for sites and technical terms with essay-length entries on conti­ nents, countries, and regions. In addition, there are major entries on such aspects of archaeological theory as behavioral ar­ chaeology, catastrophe theory, chaos theory, diffusionism, feminist and gender archaeology, Marxist archaeology, neo­ evolutionism, and others reflecting the numerous approaches to archaeological interpretation. Each concludes with a short list of bibliographical references. Cross-references are interfiled alphabeti­ cally with entry titles and identifiable within entries by capital letters. It is finely illustrated with 30 maps, 19 tables (includ­ ing chronologies and timelines), and more than 60 figures of graphs and line draw­ ings depicting artifacts, site plans, axono­ metric views, and reconstructions. There are no photographs, so terms such as aerial archaeology are purely descriptive. Bibliographical abbreviations are pro­ vided in the pages preceding the entries as is the list of forty-one contributors. The book’s strength rests on its geo­ graphical coverage, providing alternate site names as access points, as well as its approach to large land areas. Its theoreti­ cal content will be of particular use to advanced students and scholars seeking to find the current state-of-the-art ap­ proaches to the discipline.—B.S.-A. Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists. Ed. Tim Murray. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1999. 2 vols. (950p.) il. $150 (ISBN 1-57607-199-5). LC 99-052159. This two-volume work is a convenient biographical dictionary of fifty-eight, mostly Western, archaeologists, all de­ ceased, many of whom are famous out­ side the confines of the discipline, such as Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, but numerous others who are not. Arranged chronologically beginning with William Camden of the sixteenth century, it concludes with David Clarke, a young British archaeologist who died in 1976. The entries were written by an almost-equal number of contributors (forty-six) who are themselves preemi­ nent in the field. Each biography begins with a brief abstract below the name heading, birth and death dates, name of the contribut­ ing author, succinctly describing his (there were only two women) nationality and contributions to the development of archaeology. The entries themselves av­ erage about twelve pages each and are il­ lustrated with portraits, engravings from historical and original works, and photo­ graphs of excavated sites and recovered artifacts. A list of primary and secondary 192 College & Research Libraries March 2001 references follows the text with, on occa­ sion, additional works of interest, for ex­ ample, “biographical documentary nov­ els” about Heinrich Schliemann, “discov­ erer” of ancient Troy; or English transla­ tions of primary sources. In addition, vol­ ume 1 provides an alphabetical list of en­ tries and an introduction addressing the context and uses of archaeology. Volume 2 concludes with an “Epilogue: The Art of Archaeological Biography,” a useful re­ minder that both archaeology and biog­ raphy are subject to “biases, preconceived notions, personal experiences, and agen­ das” (p. 869). This is followed by a nine- page glossary and 55-page index. A number of notable omissions, such as Leonard Woolley, Louis and Mary Leakey, and several other women archae­ ologists that would have marginally im­ proved the gender count; these are ac­ knowledged by editor Tim Murray in the Introduction with the admission that limi­ tations of space and time are to blame. Few other criticisms could be found, how­ ever. Many names are not part of the print or online versions of the Dictionary of Art, and those that are, are covered in much greater depth here. This is a very welcome addition to reference collections support­ ing the needs of the general public as well as those of academic users.—B.S.-A. Science and Technology Zierdt-Warshaw, Linda, Alan Winkler, and Leonard Bernstein. American Women in Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2000. 420p. il. $75 (ISBN 1-57607-072-7). LC 00-021997. Historically, women have been relegated to the background in the fields of science and technology. This one-volume ency­ clopedia seeks to redress that wrong by showing the meaningful contribution that women have made to American society through their efforts in science and tech­ nology since the first colonists arrived. Brief descriptions of some 300 individu­ als, events, organizations, and historical milestones arranged alphabetically are informative and well written. The authors have broadened the definition of technol­ ogy to include “not only the application of science to the development of processes and products that have industrial, com­ mercial or household uses but also those that in some way improve the daily lives of humans” (Introd.). Based on this defi­ nition, not only are the numerous Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and physics included, but also inventors and patent holders such as Sybilla Masters, who in­ vented a device to clean and cure Indian corn in 1715. The book’s introduction gives an over­ view of the history of American women in technology and points out the histori­ cal practice of assigning patents or credit for an invention to a man because most of the colonies had laws prohibiting women from owning property. The United States did not issue a patent to a woman in her own name until 1809, when Mary Kies obtained one for her process of weaving straw with silk in the making of hats. Each entry is followed by a “see also” listing of cross-references as well as a list of citations to further reading and Web sites. Black-and -white photographs of individuals are a nice complement to the text. An appendix of various scientific award winners is followed by an exten­ sive bibliography of books, articles, and selected Web sites of major organizations and associations in the field. The index, as well as the alphabetical table of con­ tents, provides easy access points to the text. Recommended for both general and academic libraries.—A. M. New Editions and Supplements Volume 2 of the 8th edition of Walford’s Guide to Reference Material covering the social and historical sciences and philoso­ phy and religion, ed. Alan Day and Michael Walsh, is dedicated to John Walford who died in 2000 (London: Li­ brary Association, 2000. 794p. $135; 5th ed., 1989–91. Guide AA363). Special atten­ tion was placed on including Web sites and electronic reference sources, and there is a separate index for Online and Selected Reference Books of 2000 193 Database Services. This volume has been heavily edited with about 1,100 new en­ tries and about 950 titles updated or re­ placed. Volume 1 of the 8th edition cov­ ering science and technology appeared in 1999. The Directory of University Libraries in Europe (London: Europa, 2000. 413p. $205. annual?), a companion volume to World of Learning (Guide AL13), covers libraries from Greenland to the Ukraine. Although World of Learning treats the major univer­ sities, the Directory often adds e-mail ad­ dresses and notes on access. Also new is the treatment of institute and departmen­ tal libraries. “Special emphasis is given to listing the most important collections of each university and to covering the major academic subject areas taught” (Foreword). The Foundation Center ’s Guide to Grantseeking on the Web, 2000 edition (New York: Foundation Center, 2000. 532p. $19.95 paper) has almost doubled in size over the first edition in 1998 (392p.). Most useful is the survey of browsers and the annotated list of links to Web sites of pub­ lic charities, corporate foundations, and direct-giving programs, recognizing how changeable these addresses can be. The Introduction begins with this truism: The World Wide Web will chew up an extraor­ dinary amount of your time. Margaret Drabble has once again pro­ duced a new edition of the Oxford Com­ panion to English Literature (6th ed., Ox­ ford: Univ. Pr., 2000. 1,172p. $55; 5th ed., rev. 1995. Guide BE610; 1st edition, 1932, edited by Paul Harvey). According to the book jacket, there are 600 entirely new entries with all of the existing entries re­ vised and updated. The new entries, for example, include Anglo-Indian Litera­ ture, Censorship, Gay and Lesbian Lit­ erature, Lad’s Literature, Carol Shields, Travel Writing, etc. And, of course, the appendixes are updated—the chronol­ ogy with a few entries for 1998/99 and the literary awards up to 1999 for the Nobel, 2000 for the Pulitzer, 1999 for the Booker, and 1998 for the Carnegie med­ allists. Notice must be taken that a third edi­ tion of the Cambridge Bibliography of En­ glish Literature has begun publication with volume 4 covering 1800–1900, edited by Joanne Shattock (Cambridge: Univ. Pr., 1999. 2,995p. $200; formerly the New Cam­ bridge Bibliography of English Literature, 1800–1900. vol.3, 1969. Guide BD585). Be­ sides being about twice as long as the pre­ vious edition, the volume includes many more minor authors. Most interesting, however, are new sections on political economy that include domestic manuals and conduct books. The philosophy por­ tion adds writers on science. Extensively revised are the sections on book produc­ tion and distribution and literacy rela­ tions with the continent. The index cov­ ers primary and secondary authors. The 4th edition of Jeremy Hawthorn’s A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory (London: Arnold; copublished in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2000. 400p. $72 ; 1st ed. 1992. 282p. Guide BE83) has been thoroughly revised with a “substantial number of new entries coming from the increasingly influential area of gender politics, Queer Theory and Masculinity Studies. New terms in this edition include camp, closet criticism, deghettoization, femaling, faghag/ fagstag character, lavender language, cross dressing, outing, code switching, and transgender” (back cover). Besides expanding the “Guide to Further Read­ ing,” Hawthorn has updated the section on useful glossaries and dictionaries. R. M. Ritter has revised and updated the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2d ed. Oxford: Univ. Pr., 2000. 404p. $24.95; 1st ed. 1981. 448p. Guide AA277). It is fascinat­ ing to browse through for one never knows what one will find, for example, the differ­ ence between knickerbocker with a small K and one with a capital K, or what the K means with a Mozart piece of music as op­ posed to one by Domenico Scarlotti. Also useful are the indications of how to spell a controversial word or how to capitalize or when to hyphenate (e.g., tender-hearted is hyphenated outside the United States, where it is one word). 194 College & Research Libraries March 2001 The Encyclopedia of American Radio: An A to Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern. Updated edition 2000, by Ron Lackmann (New York: Facts on File, 2000. 370p. $60) is in reality much the same as the first edition, Same Time, Same Station (1996. 370p.). There is the occasional death date added and Appendix D: “Additional Radio Per­ sonalities” (which gives names, occu­ pations, and birth and death dates of people who were active in radio, but for whom space did not allow a more d e t a i l e d b i o g r a p h i c a l e n t r y i n t h e body of this encyclopedia) has in­ creased. Otherwise, there is little dif­ ference. Paolo Coletta’s American Naval History: A Guide (2d ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2000. 993p. $125)) is the revised edition of A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of American Naval History (1988. 523p.), which was itself a revision of a bibliogra­ phy of the same title, American Naval His­ tory (1981), This edition covers materials published up through December 1994, adding Reagan’s last year in office, the Bush administration, and Clinton’s first term. When annotations are added, they are very short. Developments of the 1990s mandated a new edition of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, ed. Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst; 2d ed., ed. Adam Winkler (2d ed. New York: Macmillan, 2000. 6 vols. (cxlvi, 3,164p.) $500; 1st ed. 1985; Supplement 1992. Guide CK130) causing 361 new articles such as DNA testing and genetic privacy, and the Internet and freedom of expression. Some of the new articles that are controversial offer contrasting views (e.g., same-sex marriage, workplace harassment). Quite a few of the older articles have been ex­ tensively revised due to changing per­ spectives, articles such as one on the eco­ nomics of affirmative action or the Sen­ eca Falls Convention. The chronology for the development of American constitu­ tional law begins with the Magna Carta (1215) and ends with the case of Saenz v. Roe (1999). James S. Olson has already issued dic­ tionaries covering American history by decade with the Historical Dictionary of the Sixties. 1999; the Twenties. 1988. Guide DB133; the New Deal. 1985. Guide DB131). This new one, Historical Dictionary of the 1950s (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000. 353p. $89.50) like the others provides “hundreds of essays about prominent people, issues, scandals, fads, events, ideas, films, radio and television pro­ grams and court cases” (Pref). At the end of each entry is a short list of suggested readings with a selected bibliography by broad topic (civil rights, rock and roll, women, youth culture). The chronology runs from the Brinks Robbery, Jan 17, 1950, to the end of the production of the Edsel, Nov 19, 1959. To compile the History Today Who’s Who in British History, ed. Juliet Gardiner (Lon­ don: Collins & Brown, 2000. $50), all of the biographical entries from the History Today Companion to British History (Lon­ don: Collins & Brown, 1997. 840p.; also published as the Columbia Companion to British History. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1997. 840p. $55.50) have been culled and then updated by adding to the al­ ready existing text, usually the last para­ graph. The editors then selected contem­ porary figures to include not in the ear­ lier work (e.g. Ken Livingstone who was elected Mayor of London, 4 May 2000), bringing the coverage up to 4,000 entries. There are cross-references, but no index. “A minor classic from the moment of its first publication” (Pref.) Christopher Cheney’s Handbook of Dates for Students of British History (New edition, revised by Michael Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2000. 246p. $54.95; 1st ed., 1945. Guide DC295n. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, no. 4) was in­ tended as a handy reference work for practicing historians. Now heavily re­ vised and updated (e.g., Calendars for all possible dates of Easter, A.D. 400–2100 or List of Popes from Gregory the Great to John Paul II), it has also taken note of re­ cent scholarship (e.g., the early sections of the tables on British rulers). Selected Reference Books of 2000 195 The revised edition of the Portugal vol­ ume, vol. 74 in the World Bibliographical Series, compiled by John Laidlar (Oxford, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2000. 293p. $88) is intended to be used in con­ junction with the first edition by P.T.H. Unwin (1987. Guide DC490) and the Lisbon volume compiled by Laidlar (1997. 304p. $54. World Bibliographical Series, vol.199). Thus, the revision can concen­ trate on publications of the past fifteen years. Oxford University Press published the Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, ed. Spen­ cer C. Tucker (New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2000. 578p. $45), which turns out to be a condensed version of the 1998 Ency­ clopedia of the Vietnam War (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1998. 3 vols.). Gone are the glossary, the statistical tables, maps, illustrations; the documents that have been reprinted have decreased from 216 to 39. Occasionally, some rewriting has been done, a death date added. Of the nearly 800 entries in the 2d edi­ tion of the Encyclopedia of Human Evolu­ tion and Prehistory, ed. Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John A. Van Couvering, and Alison S. Brooks (New York: Garland, 2000. xlv, 753p. $157. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1845) about half have been revised and expanded or are new. Useful, especially for context, is the introductory essay, which offers a sur­ vey of paleoanthropology and related fields with references to major articles, which deals with each topic. “See also” references are at the end of each main ar­ ticle. The backmatter also offers a detailed list of all articles by broad topic.