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Contents Itinerario 31/3 (2007)

INTERVIEW

“Wanting to know everything in a complex world” An interview with Allison Blakely (by Suzanne de Graaf)

ARTICLES

Lennart Bes, Records in a Rival’s Repository: Archives of the Dutch East India Company and Related Materials in the India Office Records (British Library), London (and the National Archives of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Andrew Alexander, Negotiation, Trade and the Rituals of Encounter: An Examination of the Slave-Trading Voyage of De Zon, 1775-1776
Martine Julia van Ittersum, Mare Liberum in the West Indies? Hugo Grotius and the Case of the Swimming Lion, a Dutch Pirate in the Caribbean at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

REVIEW ARTICLES

Science and Nature in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Review Essay (Emily Berquist)
Founding Fathers and Revolutionary Heirs (Helena M. Wall)

BOOK REVIEWS

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

Dejanirah Couto, Jean Louis Bacqué-Grammont, and Mahmoud Taleghani, Atlas Historique du Golfe Persique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)/Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) (Colin P. Mitchell)

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)