LeVine Mark, Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine 1880–1948, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2005, 458pp., hardback £65/£38.95, ISBN 978-0-520-23994-4; paperback £31.95/£18.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24371-2.

Davis Eric, Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2005, 312 pp., hardback £60/£35, ISBN 978-0-520-23545-8; paperback £27.50/£16/95, ISBN 978-0-520-23546-5.

Kamrava Mehran, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2005, 510pp., hardback £65/£38.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24149-7; paperback £25.95/£14.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24150-3.