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Markus Vink
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ITINERARIO 31/3 (2007)
REVIEW ARTICLES
1. Atlantic Revolutionary Characters
Madison Smartt Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2007. xii + 340 pp. ISBN: 978-0-375-42337-6 (hbk.). $27.00.
R. William Weisberger, Dennis P. Hupchick, and David L. Anderson eds., Profiles of Revolutionaries on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1700-1850. Social Science Monographs. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. vi + 338 pp. ISBN: 0-88033-970-5 (hbk.). $40.00.
Gordon S. Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006. xiv + 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0-14-311208-2 (pbk.).
2. Nature and Science in the Iberian World
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiv + 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8047-5543-4 (hbk.); 0-8047-5544-2 (pbk.).
Eddy Stols, Werner Thomas, and Johan Verberckmoes eds., Naturalia, Mirabilia e Monstrosa en los Imperios Ibéricos. Avisos de Flandes 12. x + 393 pp. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-5867-556-9 (pbk.). € 39.50.
BOOK REVIEWS
GENERAL-WORLD
1.Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Oxford and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 409 pp. ISBN: 0-691-12664-X (hbk.).
2.David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii + 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-02282-9 (hbk.).
3.David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 440 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-314073-6 (hbk.).
4.Roxanne L. Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge. Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Oxford and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiv + 328 pp. ISBN: 0-691-12721-2 (hbk.).
5.Felipe Fernandéz-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company Ltd., 2006. xviii+ 428 pp. ISBN: 978-0-393-06259-5 (hbk.).
6.John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. x + 498 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7735-3153-6 (pbk.). $27.95.
7.Anthony Webster, The Debate on the Rise of the British Empire. Issues in Historiography. Manchester and New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2006. x + 198 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7190-6792-1 (hbk.); 978-0-7190-6793-8 (pbk.).
AFRICA
8.Part T. Mgadla and Stephen C. Volz translators and eds., Words of Batswana: Letters to Mahoko A Bechwana, 1883-1896. Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series 37. l + 374 pp. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of South African Historical Documents, 2006. ISBN: 0-9585134-1-4 (hbk.).
9.Jeremy Rich, A Workman is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary. London and Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. xxii + 222 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8032-1091-2 (hbk.). $56.25 (hbk.); £34.50.
10.Andrew Ross, David Livingstone: Mission and Empire. London and New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. xiv + 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1-85285-565-9 (pbk.). $21.95.
ASIA-GENERAL
11. Sanjay Krishnan, Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain’s Empire in Asia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-231-14070-6 (hbk.).
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE PACIFIC
12.Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 390 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-3840-6 (pbk.). $23.95.
13.Mark Caprio and Koichiro Matsuda eds., Japan and the Pacific, 1540-1920: Threat and Opportunity. The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900. Volume X. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xl + 422 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-3683-6 (hbk.).
EAST ASIA
14. Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. E-ISBN: 978-0-213-50368-7 (Gutenberg e-book). $49.50; £32.00.
15.Alvyn Austin, China’s Millions: The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Cambridge and Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007. xxxii + 506 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8028-2975-7 (pbk.).
16.Nam-lin Hur, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System. Harvard East Asian Monographs 282. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xvi + 562 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-02503-5 (hbk.).
EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD
17.P.C. Emmer, O. Pétré-Grenouilleau and J. Roitman eds., A Deus ex Machina Revisited: Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development. The Atlantic World 8. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xxx + 362 pp. ISBN: 90-04-15102-8 (hbk.).
18.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. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xxix + 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-4043-4 (pbk.).
19.Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, The British Slave Trade and Public Memory. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiv + 248 pp. ISBN: 0-231-13714-1 (hbk.); 0-231-13715-X (pbk.).
20.Zoë Laidlaw, Colonial Connections, 1815-45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester University Press, 2006. Manchester and New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2005. xii + 244 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7190-6918-5 (hbk.).
21.Peter Mancall ed., Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences. Leiden and Boston, MA : Brill 2007. Viii + 168 pp. ISBN: 978-9004154-03-2 (hbk.). € 75.00; $ 98.00.*
*Reviewer: ALREADY ASSIGNED
22. Louis Sicking, Frontières d'Outre-Mer. La France et les Pays-Bas Dans le Monde Atlantique au XIXe Siècle Collection: Mondes Atlantiques. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2006. 207 pp. ISBN 2-84654-148-5 (pbk.).*
*Reviewer: ALREADY ASSIGNED
23.Alden T. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776. Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxvi + 337 pp. ISBN: 0-521-86594-8 (hbk.).
24.Jan Luiten van Zanden, Joost Jonker, Stephen Howarth, Keetie Sluyterman, A History of Royal Dutch Shell. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. 1050 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-929877-850 (hbk.). £125.00.*
Reviewer: ALREADY ASSIGNED
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
25.Rosann Marion Adderley, ‘New Negroes from Africa’: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. xvi + 340 pp. ISBN: 0-253-34703 (hbk.); 0-253-21827-6 (pbk.). $65.00 (hbk.); $24.95 (pbk.).
26.Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington, Blacks, Indians and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782. London and Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi + 342 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-1349-2 (hbk.).
27.Hal Langfur, The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830. (hbk.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xx + 408 pp. ISBN: 0-8047-5180-3 (hbk.). $65.00.
28.Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. Oxford and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xx + 320 pp. ISBN: 0-691-12674-7 (hbk.).
29.Peter Rivière ed., The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844. Volume I: Explorations on Behalf of the Royal Geographic Society 1835-1839. Hakluyt Society Series III, Volume 16. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006. xiv + 406 pp. ISBN: 978-0-904180-86-2 (hbk.).
Peter Rivière ed., The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844. Volume II: The Boundary Survey 1840-1844. Hakluyt Society Series III, Volume 17. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. ISBN: 978-0-904180-88-6 (hbk.). $99.95
MIDDLE EAST
30.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). Terrarum Orbis: Histoire des Répresentations de l'Espace: Textes, Images/History of the Representation of Space in Text and Image 6. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006. 492 pp. ISBN: 978-2-503-52284-5 (hbk.). €90.00.
31.Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History. London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. x + 276 pp. ISBN: 0-300-10603-3 (pbk.).
NORTH AMERICA
32.Terry L. Anderson, Bruce Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan eds., Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii + 332 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8047-5441-5 (hbk.). $35.00.
33.Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-02290-4 (hbk.).
34.François Furstenberg, In The Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and The Making of A Nation. The Penguin History of American Life. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006. xii + 340 pp. ISBN: 1-59420-092-0 (hbk.); 978-0-14-311193-1 (pbk.).
35.Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid eds., New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. xii + 412 pp. ISBN: 0-7735-2865-2 (hbk.); 0-7735-3040-9 (pbk.). $80.00 (hbk.).
36.Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project. London and Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 380 pp. ISBN: 0-674-02474-5 (hbk.). $29.95.
37.Ann Laura Stoler ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 546 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-3724-9 (pbk.). $26.95.
38.David A. Weir, Early New England: A Covenanted Society. Emory University Studies in Law and Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. xviii + 460 pp. ISBN: 0-8028-1352-6 (pbk.). $34.00.
SOUTH ASIA
39.Tony Ballantyne, Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World. London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xviii + 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3809-2 (hbk.); 0-8223-3824-6 (pbk.). $74.95 (hbk.); $21.95 (pbk.).
40.Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton eds., Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxii + 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-34810-4 (hbk.); 978-0-253-21873-5 (pbk.). $65.00 (hbk.); $24.95 (pbk.). *
Reviewer: ALREADY ASSIGNED
41.William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. xxiv + 536 pp. ISBN: ?978-1-4000-4310-1 (hbk.). $30.00.
42.Stanley Wolpert, Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 238 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-515198-5 (hbk.).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
43.Marieke Bloembergen, Colonial Spectacles: The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies at the World Exhibitions, 1880-1931. Beverly Jackson Translator. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2006. xviii + 478 pp. ISBN: 9971-69-330-5 (hbk.). *
Reviewer: ALREADY ASSIGNED
44.Nordin Hussin, Trade and society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830. NIAS Monographs 100. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2007. xxviii + 388 pp. ISBN: 87-91114-47-0 (hbk.); 978-87-91114-47-2 (NIAS paperback); 978-87-91114-88-5 (NIAS bk.); 978-9971-69-354-1 (NUS pbk.). $67.00 (hbk.); $29.00 (pbk.)
45.Bhawan Ruangsilp, Dutch East India Company merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya: Dutch perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, 1604-1765. TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction 8. vviii + 284 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-15600-5 (hbk.). $99.00; € 73.00.