Reviews: East Asia
Ryuto Shimada, The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century. TANAP Monographs on the History of the Asian-European Interaction 4. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishing, 2006. xvi + 225 pp. ISBN: 90-04-15092-7 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 158-160
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Timon Screech, ed., Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan, 1775–1776. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-7007-1719-6 (hbk.); Timon Screech, ed.. Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-7007-1720-X (hbk.).
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Reviews: Europe and the Wider World
Julia Adams, The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. The Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture. London and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 235 pp. ISBN: 0-8014-3308-8 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 162-166
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Matthew Dimmock, New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. viii + 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-5022-7 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 166-168
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Francisco Contente Domingues, Os Navios do Mar Oceano. Teoria e Empiria na Arquitectura Naval Portuguesa dos Séculos XVI e XVII. Lisbon: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, 2004. 533 pp. ISBN: 972-98766-9-X (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 169-171
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Jonathan R. Dull, The French Navy and the Seven Years' War. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. London and Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xix + 445 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-1731-5 (hbk.).
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Mark C. Fissel and David Trim, eds, Amphibious Warfare, 1000–1700: Commerce, State Formation, and European Expansion. History of Warfare 34. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. xi + 498 pp. ISBN: 90-04-13244-9 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 172-174
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Douglas Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester, U.K., and New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2005. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-7190-7182-8 (hbk.).
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João Pedro Marques, The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Translated from the Portuguese by Richard Wall. European Expansion and Global Interaction 4. Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York, NY, 2006. 304 pp. ISBN: 1-57181-447-7 (hbk.).
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Reviews: Latin America and the Caribbean
Jonathan D. Amith, The Möbius Strip: A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. xxi + 661 pp. ISBN: 0-8047-4893-4 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 178-180
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Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, Documents of the Coronado Expedition: ‘They Were Not Familiar With His Majesty, Nor Did They Wish to be His Subjects’. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2005. x + 746 pp. ISBN: 0-87074-496-8 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 180-181
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Doris Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi + 416 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4 (hbk.); 0-8223-3465-8 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 181-183
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Jay E. Kinsbruner, The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-292-70621-9 (hbk.) - James Robertson, Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1500–2000. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. 496 pp. ISBN: 976-637-198-9 (hbk.); 976-637-197-0 (pbk.).
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Jane E. Mangan, Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí. Latin America Otherwise. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3458-5 (hbk.); 0-8223-3470-4 (pbk.).
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Matthew Mulcahy, Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. Early America: History, Context, Culture. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ix + 257 pp. ISBN: 0-8018-8223-0 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 187-189
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Judith Francis Zeitlin, Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500–1750. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. xix + 323 pp. ISBN: 0-804-73388-0 (hbk.).
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Reviews: Middle East
Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-691-11855-8 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 192-194
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Khalid Ben Srhir, Britain and Morocco During the Embassy of John Drummond Hay, 1845–1886. Translated by Malcolm Wiliams and Gavin Waterson. History and Society in the Islamic World. London and New York, NY: RoutledgeCurzon and Frank Cass, 2005. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-7146-5432-9 (hbk.).
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Reviews: North America
Hugh Amory, Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England. Edited by David D. Hall. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. ix + 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8122-3837-0 (hbk.) - E. Jennifer Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. 504 pp. ISBN: 1-55849-486-3 (hbk.).
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Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M.H. Camp, eds, New Studies in the History of American Slavery. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-8203-2563-5 (hbk.); 0-8203-2694-1 (pbk.).
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