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  • Books Received
Albright, Daniel. Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres. Rochester, N.Y.: U of Rochester P, 2007. x, 317p., bibl., ill., index, $75. Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s Macbeth, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Akenson, Donald Harman. Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2007. x, 349p., index, $29.95. The Mormon Family History Library and its goal “to create a common pedigree of mankind.”
Antognazza, Maria Rosa. Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. xxvii, 623p., bibl., index, $39.95. The quest for a universal understanding of everything and the improvement of the human condition.
Bailey, Michael D. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 275p., bibl., ill., index, $24.95. Shifting boundaries between the known and acceptable and the occult and illicit, especially medieval and early modern.
Beaney, Michael, ed. The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology. New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv, 290p., index. Fifteen essays on Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bolzano, and Husserl.
Beaver, Daniel C. Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. xii, 173p., bibl., index, $95. Hunting rights in forests and deer parks as a means for pre-Civil War political discourse.
Blackstock, Allan. Loyalism in Ireland, 1789–1829. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. ix, 296p., bibl., index, $85. Protestants and anti-revolutionary conservatives before the militancy marked by the Troubles.
Bouchard, Gérard. The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World: An Essay in Comparative History (Carleton Library Series, 211). Trans. by Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2008. xvi, 429p. $85. First English translation, with a new preface by the author.
Breckman, Warren, ed. European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture). New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. xv, 217p., bibl., index. A selection of creative and critical writings by English, German, French, and Italian Romantic authors, with an introduction by the editor.
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. New York: New P, 2007. xvi, 288p., bibl., ill., index, $22.95. The natural history of mankind meets twenty-first-century environmental history. [End Page 181]
Brown, Harold I. Conceptual Systems. New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv, 514p., bibl., index. The “new” as a problem in the history of mathematics.
Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. New York: Oxford UP, 2007. xvii, 219p., ill., index. Migrations and boundaries in consequence of the treaties at the end of the Seven Years’ War.
Castronovo, Russ. Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007. xiii, 287p., bibl., ill., index, $24. Nineteenth-century lectures on aesthetics read beside the violence of riots, strikes, domestic terrorism, and lynching.
Clark, Stuart. Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 2007. xi, 415p., bibl., ill., index, $65. Sensation, perception, and illusion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in Macbeth.
Comaroff, John L., Jean Comaroff, and Deborah James, eds. Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007. xv, 224p., many ill., index, $25. A British anthropologist photographs Botswana, 1929–40.
Courtenay, William J. Ockham and Ockhamism: Studies in the Dissemination and Impact of His Thought (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 99). Leiden: Brill, 2008. xvi, 420p., indices, $186. Collection of articles written between 1980 and 2000, on the reception of Ockham’s works, focusing in particular on the mid-fourteenth-century crisis over his thought at the University of Paris.
Creager, Angela N. H., Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, eds. Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2007. 287p., ill., index, $22.95. Eleven essays suggest that ritual in anthropology, individual cases in psychology, and simulations in climate change serve as foundational exemplars analogous to the fruit fly in genetics.
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