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Journal of World History 8.2 (1997) 347-350



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Index to Volume 8, 1997


Aase, Andreas. Review of Kirkham, ed., The "New World Order" in Historical Perspective, 184-86

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Hobsbawm (reviewed by Palat), 179-81

The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century by Muldoon (reviewed by Watts), 329-30

Baud, Michiel, and Willem van Schendel, "Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands," 211-42

Beinart, William, and Peter Coates, Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa (reviewed by McNeill), 331-32

Brady, Thomas A. Review of Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change, 163-65

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire edited by Marshall (reviewed by Hoffenberg), 338-43

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West edited by Parker (reviewed by Morillo), 160-63

Campbell, I.C., "Culture Contact and Polynesian Identity in the European Age," 29-55

China and Japan in the Global Setting by Iriye (reviewed by Littrup), 172-76

Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate" Bengali in the Late Nineteenth Century by Sinha (reviewed by Gupta), 344-46

"Comparative History as World History: Religious Conversion in Modern India," by Richard M. Eaton, 243-71

"Culture Contact and Polynesian Identity in the European Age," by I.C.Campbell, 29-55

Dale, Stephen Frederik, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (reviewed by Wills), 333-34

Dathorne, O.R., Imagining the World: Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters (reviewed by Watts), 329-330

Desnoyers, Charles, "Toward 'One Enlightened and Progressive Civilization': Discourses of Expansion and Nineteenth-Century Chinese Missions Abroad," 135-56

Dunlap, Thomas R., "Remaking the Land: The Acclimatization Movement and Anglo Ideas of Nature," 303-19

Eaton, Richard M., "Comparative History as World History: Religious Conversion in Modern India," 243-71 [End Page 347]

Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa by Beinart and Coates (reviewed by McNeill), 331-32

The European Opportunity by Fernández-Armesto (reviewed by Phillips), 326-28

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, ed., The European Opportunity (reviewed by Phillips), 326- 28

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, ed., The Global Opportunity (reviewed by Phillips), 326- 28

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years (reviewed by McNeill), 166-68

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas edited by Turner (reviewed by Karras), 169-72

The Global Opportunity by Fernández-Armesto (reviewed by Phillips), 326-28

The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed by Lamb (reviewed by Phillips), 326-28

Gordon, Matthew. Review of Hillenbrand, Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning, 321-23

Gupta, Surojit M. Review of Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate" Bengali in the Late Nineteenth Century, 344-46

Headley, John M., The Sixteenth-Century Venetian Celebration of the Earth's Total Habitability: The Issue of the Fully Habitable World for Renaissance Europe, 1- 27

Hillenbrand, Robert, Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning (reviewed by Gordon), 321-23

Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (reviewed by Palat), 179-81

Hoffenberg, Peter H. Review of Kiernan, Imperialism and Its Contradictions and Marshall, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, 338-43

Imagining the World: Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters by Dathorne (reviewed by Watts), 329-30

Imperialism and Its Consequences by Kiernan (reviewed by Hoffenberg), 338-43

Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 by Dale (reviewed by Wills), 333- 34

"Intercontinental Trade and the Development of the Third World since the Industrial Revolution," by Patrick Karl O'Brien, 75-133

Iriye, Akira, China and Japan in the Global Setting (reviewed by Littrup), 172-76

Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning by Hillenbrand (reviewed by Gordon), 321-23

Karras, Alan L. Review of Turner, From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas, 169-72

Karttunen, Frances. Review of Schütz, The Voices...

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