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Dear H-AFRICA subscribers, Itinerario is looking for qualified reviewers for issue 31/2 (2007). Have a look at the list of 45 book titles below, divided according to geographical area, and indicate what work(s) you are interested in to review. A book review is between 1,000 and 1,200 words long. The review article or book review should be in my possession no later than June 15, 2007, and is to be sent in electronic version both as an email attachment in Word document (.doc) and in the body of text of the email to: markus.vink@fredonia.edu <mailto:markus.vink@fredonia.edu> Please provide me with complete contact information for the complimentary review copy to be sent to. If you are unable to review this round, but know somebody else qualified to review a certain title do not hesitate to forward me her/his email. Itinerario (see: www.itinerario.nl <http://www.itinerario.nl/> ) is a Leiden-based journal with an international readership, dealing with all aspects related to European expansion and cross-cultural interaction in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. It is currently in its 30th year of publication and appears three times a year. Each issue contains 1 interview, 4 articles, 2 review articles and ca. 40-45 book reviews of 1,000-1,200 words length. For subscriptions inside the U.S.A., Mexico, and Canada: Itinerario, c/o John Carter Brown Library, P.O. Box 1894, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. For subscriptions outside the U.S.A., Mexico, and Canada, please contact Marijke van Wissen van Staden at: m.c.e.wissen@let.leidenuniv.nl If you are currently not a member of our affiliated organization the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (F.E.E.G.I.), please join us. Membership dues for 2007 are 20 dollars (USD), payable to: F.E.E.G.I., c/o Linda M. Rupert, Department of History, UNC Greensboro, 2129 Moore Humanities and Research Administration, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170. F.E.E.G.I. organizes a biennial conference, hosts an official website with an electronic Newsletter (http://feegi.org), manages an email distribution and discussion list (feegi@lists.uoregon.edu), and is affiliated with Itinerario (Itinerario@let.leidenuniv.nl). Members receive a discount of 11 dollars when subscribing to Itinerario (51 dollars instead of 62 dollars) and are automatically placed on a list for potential reviewers for future issues. We sincerely appreciate your willingness to review for Itinerario. Due to the sheer volume of responses, however, it is physically impossible to confirm each individual email. In solidarity, Markus ITINERARIO 31/2 (2007) BOOK REVIEWS GENERAL-WORLD 1. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xvi + 328 pp. ISBN: 0-8047-4279-5 (hbk.); 0-8047-4280-4 (pbk.). 2. Gunlög Fur, Colonialism in the Margins: Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland. Series: The Atlantic World 9. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xii + 300 pp. ISBN: 90-04-15316-0 (hbk.). 3. David Lambert and Alan Lester eds., Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 376 pp. ISBN: 0-521847702 (hbk.). 4. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-517569-1 (pbk.). 5. Tabish Khair, Justin D. Edwards, Martin Leer, and Hanna Ziadeh eds., Other Routes: African and Asian Travel Writings From Before 1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. xii + 421 pp. ISBN: 0-253-34693-2 (hbk.); 0-253-21821-7 (pbk.). 6. Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao eds., Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism. Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review Book Series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. viii + 355 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3731-2 (hbk.); 0-8223-3743-6 (pbk.). AFRICA 7. Ruth Ginio, French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii + 243 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-2212-2 (hbk.). 8. Colleen E. Kriger, Cloth in West African History. Foreword by Graham Connah. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-7591-0421-2 (hbk.); 0-7591-0422-0 (pbk.). 9. Richard L. Smith, Ahmad Al-Mansur: Islamic Visionary. Library of World Biography Series. Longman Publishers, 2006. xviii + 190 pp. ISBN: 0-321-25044-3 (pbk.). ASIA-GENERAL 10. Sugata Bose, A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 333 pp. ISBN: 0-674-92157-6 (hbk.). Reviewer: Prof Markus Vink Department of History State University of New York at Fredonia 280 Central Avenue E318 Thompson Hall Fredonia, NY 14063 U.S.A. Email: markus.vink@fredonia.edu AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC 11. Tanya Storch ed., Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500-1900. The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 XVII. xxxviii + 415 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-0667-8 (hbk.). EAST ASIA 12. David Anthony Bello, Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. xxii + 373 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01649-1 (hbk.). 13. Donna Brunero, Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 36. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. xvi + 200 pp. ISBN: 0-415-32619-2 (hbk.). 14. Lars Laamann, Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China: The Inculturation of Christianity in 18th and Early 19th Century. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 41. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 204 pp. ISBN: 0-415-29779-6 (hbk.). EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD 15. Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi + 480 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-3034-8 (hbk.); 0-8078-5698-3 (pbk.). 16. J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided. Religion, Republicanism and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 330 pp. ISBN: 0-19-530530-2 (hbk.). 17. Sheryllynne Haggerty, The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods. The Atlantic World 6. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xiv + 290 pp. ISBN: 90-04-15018-8 (hbk.). 18. Eric T. Jennings, Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xii + 272 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3808-4 (hbk.); 0-8223-3822-X (pbk.). 19. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xviii + 280 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-4292-5 (hbk.). 20. 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.). 21. Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarianism and the Discovery of India. London: HarperPress, 2006. xxvi + 628 pp. ISBN: 0-00-72892-4 (hbk.). LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN 22. John Bigelow, Jamaica in 1850, or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony. Introduction by Robert J. Scholnick. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. lxii + 216 pp. ISBN: 0-252-07327-4 (pbk.). 23. Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks, The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xvi + 344 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-2031-7 (hbk.). 24. Joyce Lorimer ed., Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana?. Hakluyt Society, Series III, Volume 15. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society. Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xcviii + 360 pp. ISBN: 0-904180-87-5 (hbk.). 25. Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard E. Phillips eds., Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America. The Atlantic World 10. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xviii + 454 pp. ISBN: 978-9004153-92-9 (hbk.). 26. Frederick H. Smith, Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. xviii + 340 pp. ISBN: 0-8130-2867-1 (hbk.). 27. Camilla Townsend, Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. Diálogos. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Xvi + 287 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-3405-9 (pbk.). MIDDLE EAST 28. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xxiii + 193 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-5708-6 (hbk.). 29. William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. London: Hurst and Company, 2006. Xxvi + 294 pp. ISBN: 1-85605-708-4 (hbk.). 30. Diane Robinson-Dunn, The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester and New York NY: Manchester University Press, 2006. xiv + 225 pp. ISBN: 0-7190-7328-6 (hbk.). NORTH AMERICA 31. Daniel A. Cohen, Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xi + 350 pp. ISBN: 1-55849-529-0 (pbk.). 32. William M. Kelso, Jamestown: The Buried Truth. London and Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xiv + 238 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-2563-9 (hbk.). 33. Peter C. Mancall, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America. London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. ix + 378 pp. ISBN: 0-300-11054-5 (hbk.). 34. Cesare Marino and Karim M. Tiro eds. and transl., Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii +116 pp. ISBN: 0-8122-3914-8 (hbk.). 35. Michael A. McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xx + 544 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3108-3 (hbk.). 36. Carolyn Podruchny, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. London and Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxiv + 416 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-8790-9 (pbk.). 37. Faren Siminoff, Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island. London and New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006. x + 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8147-9832-2 (hbk.). SOUTH ASIA 38. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi + 399 pp. ISBN: 0-521-78041-1 (hbk.). Reviewer: CONFIRMED Dr. Gijs Kruijtzer Department of History University of Leiden P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden THE NETHERLANDS Email: g.c.kruijtzer@let.leidenuniv.nl 39. Elizabeth J. Harris, Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 274 pp. ISBN: 0-415-37125-2 (hbk.). 40. Rosemary Raza, In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857. New Delhi, Oxford, and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxxii + 289 pp. ISBN: 0-19-567708-0 (hbk.). 41. Mrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire. Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review Book Series. London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xviii + 366 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3782-7 (hbk.); 0-8223-3795-9 (pbk.). SOUTHEAST ASIA 42. 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.). 43. Olga Dror and K.W. Taylor eds., Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. SOSEA-41. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2006. 290 pp. ISBN: 9780877277712 (hbk.); 9780877277415 (pbk.). 44. Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv + 538 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-2985-4 (hbk.); 0-8078-5653-3 (pbk.). 45. Judith Richell, Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma. Copenhagen: NIAS Press; Singapore: NUS Press, 2006. xiv + 327 pp. ISBN: 87-91114-70-5 (NIAS; pbk.); 9971-69-301-1 (NUS; pbk.). Markus Vink Research Associate, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University Book Review Editor, Itinerario Associate Professor Department of History State University of New York at Fredonia 280 Central Avenue E318 Thompson Hall Fredonia, NY 14063 U.S.A. Phone: 716-673-3882 Fax: 716-673-3332 Email: markus.vink@fredonia.edu
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