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Dear H-Africa members, Itinerario is looking for qualified reviewers for its next issue 33/2 (2009). Have a look at the list of the review article topics and book titles below, divided according to geographical area, and indicate what work(s) you are interested in to review. A regular book review is between 1,000 and 1,200 words long. Style guidelines can be found on the Itinerario website: www.itinerario.nl and will be mailed to you along with your book. The review article or book review should be sent to us by *September 1, 2009*, and is to be sent in electronic version as an email attachment in Word document (.doc) to revieweditor.itinerario@gmail.com. Please provide me with complete contact information for the complimentary review copy(ies) 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 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 31st 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 2008 are 20 dollars (USD), payable to: F.E.E.G.I., c/o Linda Rupert, Department of History, University of North Carolina,Greensboro, HHRA 2106, P.O. Box 26170, 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. We will send an email confirmation letting you know you have been selected to review a requested title. Due to the sheer volume of responses, however, it is often physically impossible to confirm each individual email. We appreciate your patience as we process the requests and are very grateful for your willingness to contribute to the success of the journal. Cheers, Laura Cruz Book Review Editor, Itinerario James McFatter Assistant Book Review Editor, Itinerario *Summer 2009 (Issue 39/2) Book Review List Itinerario* *General/World* Raymond E. Dumett, ed., *Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire: Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion*(Ashgate, 2009) * * Double Review: Francesca Trivellato, *The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern World *(Yale University Press, 2009); Richard L. Kagan and Phillip D. Morgan, *Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800* (John Hopkins University Press, 2009) *Africa/Mid-East* Marnia Lazreg *Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad* (Princeton University Press, 2008) Patrick Manning, *The African Diaspora: A History through Culture* (Columbia University Press, 2009) Amos Nadan, *The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling* (Harvard University Press, 2006) David Northrup, *Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic: A Brief History with Documents.* (Bedford/St. Martins, 2008) *Asia*** Emily Byrne Curtis, *Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800: Diplomatic, Mercantile, and Technological Interactions* (Ashgate Press, 2009) Inez Hollander *Silenced Voices: Uncovering a Family’s Colonial History in Indonesia* (Ohio University Press, 2008) Rochonoa Majumdar, *Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal* (Duke University Press, 2009) Preeti Nijhar, *Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England* (Pickering and Chatto, 2009) Eric Sidenvall, *The Making of Manhood among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890 - c. 1914* (Brill, 2009) Neferti X. M. Tadiar, *Things Fall Away: Phillipine Historical Experience and the Making of Globalization* (Duke University Press, 2009) *Europe*** José Manuel De Bernardo Ares, *Luis XIV Rey De España. De Los Estados Unitarios, 1665-1714* (Iustel, 2008) Leora Auslander, *Cultural Revolutions. The Politics of Everyday Life in Britain, North America and France* (Oxford, Berg, 2009) Robert J. Blyth and Kenneth Jeffery, *The British Empire and its Contested Pasts* (Irish Academic Press, 2009). Debra Blumenthal, *Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia* (Cornell University Press, 2009) Kees Boterbloem, *The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys, A Seventeenth Century Dutch Globetrotter* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) John. H. Darch, *Missionary Imperialists? Missionaries, Government and the Growth of the British Empire, 1860 – 1885* (Paternoster, 2009) J.H. Elliott, *Spain, Europe, and the Wider World 1500-1800* (Yale University Press, 2009) Maartje van Gelder, *Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice* (Brill, 2009) Oscar Gelderblom, ed., *The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic* (Ashgate, 2009) Patricia E. Grieve, *The Eve of Spain: Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict* (John Hopkins University Press, 2009) Monique O’Connell, *Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice’s Maritime State* (John Hopkins University Press, 2009) Dimitris Tziovas, ed., *Greek Diaspora and Migration Since 1700: Society, Politics and Culture* (Ashgate, 2009) Could possibly be reviewed with Bruce Clark, *Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey* (Harvard University Press, 2006) Double Review: Thomas Betteridge, ed. *Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe* (Ashgate, 2007); and Joan-Pau Rubiés, *Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology*(Ashgate, 2007) *Latin America*** Liam Matthew Brockey, ed., *Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World* (Ashgate, 2009) Karen B. Graubart, *With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700* (Stanford University Press, 2007) Fernando Operé, *Indian Captivity in Spanish America: Frontier Narratives* (University of Virginia Press, 2008) Double Review: Neil Safier, *Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America* (University of Chicago Press, 2009); Daniela Bleichmar, Paula De Vos, Kristine Huffine and Kevin Sheehan, *Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500 – 1800* (Stanford University Press, 2009) *North America/Atlantic World* David Armitage, Michael Braddick (eds) *The British Atlantic World, 1500 – 1800* (second edition) (Palgrave, 2009) Phillip P. Boucher, *France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?* (John Hopkins University Press, 2008) Christopher Ebert, *Between Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy* (Brill, 2008) Wim Klooster, ed., *Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer* (Brill, 2009) Peter C. Mancall, *Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson* (Basic books, 2009) *REVIEW ESSAY*: We are also looking for someone interested/qualified to do a review essay (2000-3000 words) on the following three books: Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton (eds), *Moving Subjects. Gender Mobility in an Age of Global Empire* (University of Illinois Press, 2009) Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake, *Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World* (Oxford University Press, 2009) Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, *A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950* (Princeton University Press, 2008)
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