Online Bookreviews
Issue 31/3 (2007)
GENERAL-WORLD
Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (Matthew Shaw)
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Charles W.A. Prior)
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (John Donoghue)
Roxanne L. Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Craig Loomis)
Felipe Fernandéz-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (Gayle K. Brunelle)
Gunlög Fur, Colonialism in the Margins: Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland (John Smolenski)
Jay A. Levenson, ed., Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Dana Leibsohn)
John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (Claire Brennan)
Anthony Webster, The Debate on the Rise of the British Empire (Ralph Austen)
AFRICA
Part Themba Mgadla and Stephen C. Volz, translators and eds., Words of Batswana: Letters to Mahoko A Bechwana, 1883-1896 (Kalala Ngalamulume)
Jeremy Rich, A Workman is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary (Carol Summers)
Andrew Ross, David Livingstone: Mission and Empire (Daniel R. Magaziner)
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC
Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia (Steve Garner)
Mark Caprio and Koichiro Matsuda, eds., Japan and the Pacific, 1540-1920: Threat and Opportunity (Stefan Halikowski Smith)
EAST ASIA
Alvyn Austin, China’s Millions: The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905 (Vincent Kelly Pollard)
Nam-Lin Hur, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System (Paul B. Watt)
Yasuko Suzuki, Nagasaki-Bugyô no Kenkyû [A Study on Governors in Nagasaki,1680s-1760s] (Fuyuko Matsukata)
EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD
P.C. Emmer, O. Pétré-Grenouilleau, and J. Roitman, eds., A Deus ex Machina Revisited: Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development (Robert S. DuPlessis)
Peter Jimack, ed., A History of the Two Indies: A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal’s Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissements des Européens dans les Deux Indes (Kevin P. McDonald)
Zoë Laidlaw, Colonial Connections, 1815-45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government (Jeffrey Auerbach)
Louis Sicking, Frontières d’Outre-Mer: La France et les Pays-Bas dans le Monde Atlantique au XIXe Siècle (Philippe R. Girard)
Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarianism and the Discovery of India (Kate Brittlebank)
Alden T. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776 (Ethan A. Schmidt)
Jan Luiten van Zanden, Joost Jonker, Stephen Howarth, and Keetie Sluyterman,A History of Royal Dutch Shell (Frans-Paul van der Putten)
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
Rosanne Marion Adderley, “New Negroes from Africa”: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (Matt Clavin)
Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington, Blacks, Indians and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782 (Jeremy Ravi Mumford)
Hal Langfur, The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 (Christopher Ebert)
Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru (Thomas Whigham)
Peter Rivière, ed., The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844. Volume I:Explorations on Behalf of the Royal Geographic Society 1835-1839;
Peter Rivière, ed., The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844. Volume II: The Boundary Survey 1840-1844 (Fernando Rosa Ribeiro)
MIDDLE EAST
NORTH AMERICA
Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Rachel Hope Cleves)
François Furstenberg, In The Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (Robert G. Parkinson)
Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid, eds., New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons (Christopher J. Bilodeau)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (Laurie Hochstetler)
Ann Laura Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Serena Zabin)
SOUTH ASIA
Tony Ballantyne, Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World (Doris R. Jakobsh)
Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton, eds., Slavery and South Asian History (Markus P.M. Vink)
William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Karen Isaksen Leonard)
Stanley Wolpert, Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Yaqoob Khan Bangash)
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Marieke Bloembergen, Colonial Spectacles: The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies at the World Exhibitions, 1880-1931 (Nigel Worden)
Nordin Hussin, Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830 (Nurfadzilah Yahaya)
Bhawan Ruangsilp, Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya:Dutch Perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, 1604-1765 (Constance M. Wilson)