Book Reviews : Rebellion in America: A Contemporary British Viewpoint, 1765-83 by David H. Murdock. Clio Press, £45.00
| Date | 01 October 1979 |
| DOI | 10.1177/004711787900600422 |
| Published date | 01 October 1979 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
724
The
United
States
and
World
Trade
by
Robert
T.
Green
and
J.
M.
Lutz.
Praeger.
£12.50.
The
purpose
of
this
book
is
to
provide
some
estimation
of
U.S.
relationships
with
the
rest
of
the
nations
of
the
world
and
some
indication
of
the
changes
that
have
occurred
in
these
relationships
over
time.
It
covers
a
vast
field,
opening
with
an
introductory
chapter
entitled
’The
Position
of
the
United
States
in
World
Trade
which
details
the
objectives
and
organization
of
the
study.
The
book
is
divided
into
three
parts.
Part
I,
entitled
The
Hierarchy
of
International
Trade,
is
divided
into
chapters
on
World
Trade,
Hierarchies,
Economic
Dependence,
and
Patterns
of
Inter-
national
Influence;
The
Development
of
Trade
Hierarchies;
Overview
of
International
Trade
Hierarchies;
Dependency
Patterns
among
Nations;
International
Hierarchies:
Conclusions
and
Implications.
Part
II-The
Technology-Intensive
Export
Position
of
the
United
States-is
divided
into
chapters
on
The
Role
of
Technology
in
Export
Trade;
Analysis
of
Tech-
nology-Intensive
Trade;
United
States
Technology-Intensive
Export
Posi-
tion ;
Technology-Intensive
Export
Position
of
Other
Major
Trading
Nations;
Implications
for
U.S.
Technology-Intensive
Trade.
The
Conclud-
ing
Part
III
is
devoted
to
Export
Patterns
and
U.S.
Economic
Influence.
British
Writing
on
Disarmament
by
Lorna
Lloyd
and
Nicholas
Sims.
Frances
Pinter
Ltd.
£12.50.
This
bibliography
list
publications
(books,
articles,
or
pamphlets)
on
disarmament
from
1914-78,
plus
a
short
section
on
influential
pre-war
material.
It
appears
to
be
extremely
comprehensive,
with
60
different
head-
ings,
and
it
is
gratifying
to
see
eight
publications
mentioned
by
the
founder
of
this
Institute.
Some
of
the
categories
covered
are:
Chemical
Dis-
armament,
Science
Aspects,
Economic
Aspects,
Foreign
Policy
Aspects,
Military
Aspects,
Legal
Aspects,
Atomic
Energy
and
Nuclear
Weapons,
Seabed
Arms
Control,
Strategic
Arms
Limitation,
Arms
Trade,
Christian
Churches
and
CND.
A
very
useful
reference
book
for
anyone
working
in
the
Disarmament
or
Defence
field.
Rebellion
in
America:
A
Contemporary
British
Viewpoint,
1765-83
by
David
H.
Murdock.
Clio
Press,
£45.00.
This
weighty,
1041
page
book
contains
facsimile
accounts
of
reports
of
the
American
Revolution
as
taken
from
the
pages
of
the
English
periodical
the
Annual
Register.
This
source
is
the
only
contemporary
detailed
account
of
the
Anglo-American
conflict
as
it
developed
year
by
year.
The
Register
was
used
as
a
main
source
for
their
work,
almost
in-
variably
without
attribution,
by
the
early
historians
of
the
American
Revolution.
The
Annual
Register
was
started
in
1758
with
Edmund
Burke
as
the
editor
and
he
continued
in
that
job
until
at
least
1764
and
possibly
later.
Subsequent
editorship
is
controversial,
but
it
seems
likely
that
Burke
con-
tinued
in
at
least
a
consultative
role
for
a
great
many
years,
as
the
later
editors
were
friends
of
his.
Another
thing
the
editors
had
in
common
was
that
they
all
belonged
to
a
section
of
the
opposition
of
that
time
known
as
the
Rockingham
Whigs,
but
despite
that
the
accounts
in
the
Register
seem
to
be
fairly
impartial.
As
the
Introduction
says
&dquo;Taken
as
a
whole,
the
Register’s
historical
articles
were
accurate
and
free
of
blatant
bias.
However,
it
is
difhcult
to
avoid
the
conclusion
that
the
Register
projected
a
view
of
the
conflict
between
Britain
and
America
which
was
consistently
aligned
with
that
of
Burke
and
the
Rockinghams.
The
Register’s
reports
of
debates
generally
presented
the
ministerial
position
fairly
and
clearly,
but
the
overall
tenor
of
the
commentary
was
critical
of
every
govern-
ment’s
American
policy
save
that
of
the
two
Rockingham
administrations.
Its
treatment
of
the
development
of
the
conflict
with
the
colonies
implicitly
defended
the
American
position.&dquo;
The
sources
used
in
compiling
the
Register
are
a
matter
of
some
speculation,
but
certainly
it
takes
an
anglocentric
view.
There
is
little
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