The Journal of Race Development (Volume 7) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... NOTES AND REVIEWS Nationalism, War and Society. By Edward Krbhbiel, Ph.D., Professor of History in Leland Stanford Junior University. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1916. In this volume, which has just appeared, Professor Krehbiel has presented a syllabus of nearly every topic which is necessary for an understanding of the fundamental problems of International Relations. The scope of the work may be judged from the titles of a few of the chapters: nationalism, the case for nationalism and the war system, the faults of nationalism and the war system, the armed peace and its fruits, the economic consequences of war, public debts, war and sociology, war and biology, the role of force, modern internationalism, idealist pacifism, practical pacifism, international law, international arbitration, limitation of national sovereignty education and peace, and the great war and pacificism. Each chapter is divided into topics, with short paragraphs giving summaries of the various points of view, and with striking quotations and a bibliography. It is a work of value for the serious student of international relatlons. It would make an excellent text-book for a college or university class dealing with the problem of international government, or world organization. Our Eastern Question: America's Contact with the Orient and the Trend of Relations vnth China and Japan. By Thomas F. Millard. New York: The Century Company. 1916. Mr. Millard is intimately acquainted with the Far East through years of residence and travel, and has written an interesting account of the present tangled Oriental situation. While strongly anti-Japanese, as is natural for one living mostly in China, he has made an important addition to the serious literature on the subject. The student will espec...