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Order without Government: The Society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela (Illinois Studies in Anthropology)

Order without Government: The Society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela (Illinois Studies in Anthropology)


David John Thomas



Order without Government: The Society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela (Illinois Studies in Anthropology)...
The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England

The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England


David Hawkes



Review “Hawkes' brilliant anatomy of early modern usury illuminates a keyword of the period.  Revealing usury's...
Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: The Rise of Muslim Consciousness (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship)

Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: The Rise of Muslim Consciousness (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship)


Nasar Meer



Review 'This is a refreshing and innovative account of the formation of different types of consciousness among Muslims in...
A history of the Jews: Ancient and Modern

A history of the Jews: Ancient and Modern


Ilan Halévi



Language Notes Text: English, French (translation) ...
The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings

The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings


Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad



Review "There has never been a Cold War history like it; everything about it is monumental.... In total, the volumes rep...
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 1)

The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 1)


Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad



Review "[There is] an admirable comprehensiveness in The Cambridge History... The editors have gathered the top scholars...
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 2)

The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 2)


Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad



Review "There has never been a Cold War history like it; everything about it is monumental.... In total, the volumes rep...
History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World

History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World


Arthur Goldhammer, Georges Duby, Phillippe Aries



From Publishers Weekly People of the Middle Ages were suspicious of solitude. Feudal dwellings were promiscuously crowded...
Insects of the Texas Lost Pines

Insects of the Texas Lost Pines


Scott B. Fleenor, Stephen Welton Taber



About the Author Stephen Welton Taber has written two other books previously published by Texas A&M University Press, Fir...
Postmodern Anarchism

Postmodern Anarchism


Lewis Call



Review Lewis Call's Postmodern Anarchism is not only a clear, concise statement of the intersection of postmodernism and ...
Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Land in the Days of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud

Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Land in the Days of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud


Aharon Oppenheimer, Daniel R. Schwartz, Jack Pastor, Menahem Mor



Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Land in the Days of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud...
Barbar - König - Tyrann. Das Bild Theoderichs des Großen in der Überlieferung des 5. bis 9. Jahrhunderts (Millennium-Studien - Band 12)

Barbar - König - Tyrann. Das Bild Theoderichs des Großen in der Überlieferung des 5. bis 9. Jahrhunderts (Millennium-Studien - Band 12)


Andreas Goltz



Review "F r die Erforschung der Gotenzeit setzt das fl ssig und in der Konsequenz der Darstellung spannend geschriebene B...
Dreams of flight: general aviation in the United States

Dreams of flight: general aviation in the United States


Janet Rose Daly Bednarek, Michael H. Bednarek



Review “Dreams of Flight is a timely, concise, and readable history of general aviation in the United States over ...
The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo


Valentina Peguero



Review "Peguero offers an impressively balanced and comprehensive account of the Dominican military and political history...
The fortune teller's kiss

The fortune teller's kiss


Brenda Serotte



From Publishers Weekly Poet Serotte relives a childhood cataclysm in this culture-rich, affecting memoir, part of the Ame...
The farm on the North Talbot Road

The farm on the North Talbot Road


Allan G. Bogue



About the Author Allan G. Bogue is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served p...
Eurocentrism, Second Edition

Eurocentrism, Second Edition


Samir Amin



Review This book is a provocative and compelling critical account of the historical, ideological, political, and economic...
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World


Mike Davis



From Publishers Weekly While this book will not have the impact of Davis's City of Quartz--a scathing indictment of L.A.'...
Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)

Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)


Elka Klein



Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)...
States of Violence (The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series)

States of Violence (The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series)


Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski



States of Violence (The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series)...
The Letters of David Hume: Volume 2

The Letters of David Hume: Volume 2


J. Y. T. Greig



About the Author John Young Thomson Greig was a British literary scholar and award-winning biographer. He was born in Man...
The Letters of David Hume: Volume 1

The Letters of David Hume: Volume 1


J. Y. T. Greig



About the Author John Young Thomson Greig was a British literary scholar and award-winning biographer. He was born in Man...
The case of the ugly suitor: & other histories of love, gender, & nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870

The case of the ugly suitor: & other histories of love, gender, & nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870


Jeffrey M. Shumway



Review "Jeffrey M. Shumway contributes an extraordinary story that not only adds to the historiography of topics such as ...
The Tesla Disc Turbine

The Tesla Disc Turbine


W.M.J. Cairns



The Tesla Disc Turbine...
Seeing and being seen in the later medieval world: optics, theology, and religious life

Seeing and being seen in the later medieval world: optics, theology, and religious life


Dallas George Denery



Review "Although Denery's book is not an easy read, readers who stick to it will be rewarded with a number of creative i...
Rescue & flight: American relief workers who defied the Nazis

Rescue & flight: American relief workers who defied the Nazis


Susan Elisabeth Subak, William F. Schulz



Review "Rescue & Flight is valuable, focused research on the important...efforts undertaken before and during the war to ...
The German Giants: The German R-Planes 1914-1918 (Putnams German Aircraft)

The German Giants: The German R-Planes 1914-1918 (Putnams German Aircraft)


Peter M. Grosz, G. W. Haddow



The German Giants: The German R-Planes 1914-1918 (Putnams German Aircraft)...
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea


Alberto Toscano



Review A tour de force in every sense—Toscano wipes the smug smiles off the self-righteous faces of the New Philos...
Sovereignty matters: locations of contestation and possibility in indigenous struggles for self-determination

Sovereignty matters: locations of contestation and possibility in indigenous struggles for self-determination


Joanne Barker



About the Author Joanne Barker (Lenape) is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State Unive...
Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile and Her Family

Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile and Her Family


Miriam Shadis



Review "Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages provides a thorough and though...
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)


Bonnie Wheeler, Mary Martin Mclaughlin



Review “Heloise and Abelard have been extraordinarily well served by this latest translation of their celebrated c...
The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)


Mark Gamsa



Review “This is a fascinating exploration of inter-cultural history and there is nothing like it in the English-langu...
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)


Leslie Brown, Anne Valk



Review “An indispensible contribution to African American and women’s history. Essential.”—CH...
Mexican karismata: the baroque vocation of Francisca de los Ángeles, 1674-1744

Mexican karismata: the baroque vocation of Francisca de los Ángeles, 1674-1744


Ellen Gunnarsdóttir



Review “This is a useful and important book. Readable and engaging, it will be essential reading for those interes...
Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch (Queenship and Power)

Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch (Queenship and Power)


Ilona Bell



Review “Bell is the only scholar out there who is able to tackle the complexities of Elizabeth’s written and re...
Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority

Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority


Sharon Bailey Glasco



About the Author Sharon Bailey Glasco is Associate Professor of Latin American and World History at Linfield College i...
Trans-Pacific Interactions: The United States and China, 1880-1950

Trans-Pacific Interactions: The United States and China, 1880-1950


Ruth Mayer, Vanessa Kunnemann



Review “The book provides insights into how national and individual identities within both China and the United St...
Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited

Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited


Darioush Bayandor



Review 'The author has tackled a subject of great importance, infused with emotions and obscured by political manipulatio...
Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 1969-74 (Global Conflict and Security Since 1945)

Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 1969-74 (Global Conflict and Security Since 1945)


Niklas H. Rossbach



About the Author NIKLAS H. ROSSBACH holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute. ...
The Undivided Sky: The Holocaust on East and West German Radio in the 1960s

The Undivided Sky: The Holocaust on East and West German Radio in the 1960s


Ren Wolf



About the Author RENE WOLF  is Teaching Asssociate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. ...
Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire

Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire


Frenchy Lunning



Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire...
Classification of Knowledge in Islam: A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Science (Islamic Texts Society)

Classification of Knowledge in Islam: A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Science (Islamic Texts Society)


Osman Bakar



Review 'This book must be considered as an important contribution to a better understanding of certain significant aspect...
A history of West Africa, 1000-1800

A history of West Africa, 1000-1800


Basil Davidson, F. K. Buah



A history of West Africa, 1000-1800...
The Reign of Leo VI (886-912): Politics and People

The Reign of Leo VI (886-912): Politics and People


Shaun Tougher



Review '..".eine fundierte und unspectakuldre Bestandsaufnahme unseres Wissens ]ber Leon VI...'Johannes Koder, "Jahrbuch ...
The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries


Anthony Reid, David Morgan, M. A. Cook



Book Description This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century t...
The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 2: The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 2: The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries


M. A. Cook



Book Description Leading scholars in the field chart the rise and fall, and the political and religious developments, of ...
The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries

The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries


Chase F. Robinson



Book Description Leading scholars in the field survey the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique o...
Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919

Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919


Andre Schmid



Review Schmid provides a stimulating tour of current theorizing about the nation and nationalism... profoundly stimulating ...