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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.
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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.). $154.95; £80.00.
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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, Ml: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007. xxxii + 506 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8028-2975-7 (pbk.). $45.00.
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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.). $55.00; £35.95; 50.70.
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Yasuko Suzuki, Nagasaki-Bugyô no Kenkyû [A Study on Governors in Nagasaki, 1680s–1760s]. Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2007. xxi + 386 pp. ISBN: 978-4-7842-1339-9 (hbk.). ¥6200.
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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 and Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xxx + 362 pp. ISBN: 90-04-15102-8 (hbk.). €103.00; $139.00.
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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.). $114.95; €60.00.
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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.). £50.00.
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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.). €28.00.
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Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarianism and the Discovery of India. London: HarperPress, 2006. xxvi + 628 pp. ISBN: 978-0-00-712892-1 (hbk.). £25.00.
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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.). £35.00; $50.00.
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- 11 January 2010, pp. 143-144
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Jan Luiten van Zanden, Joost Jonker, Stephen Howarth, and Keetie Sluyterman, A History of Royal Dutch Shell. Oxford: Oxford University Press with Boom Uitgeverij (Amsterdam), 2007. 4 vols. 1800 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-929878-5 (hbk.). £125.00; $250.00; €145.00.
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Rosanne 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: 978-0-253-34703-9 (hbk.); 978-0-253-21827-8 (pbk.). $65.00 (hbk.); $24.95 (pbk.).
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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: 978-0-8032-1349-4 (hbk.). $45.00.
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Hal Langfur, The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750–1830. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xx + 408 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8047-5180-3 (hbk.). $65.00.
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Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xx + 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-12674-6 (hbk.). £19.95; $35.00.
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- 11 January 2010, pp. 152-153
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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.
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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.
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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.). $35.00; £22.95; €32.30.
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- 11 January 2010, pp. 158-160
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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: Penguin Books, 2006. xii + 340 pp. ISBN: 1-59420-092-0 (hbk.); 978-0-14-311193-1 (pbk.). $16.00 (pbk.).
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- 11 January 2010, pp. 160-162
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