Books Received

c.e.–1500c.e.
susan whitfield. Life along the Silk Road. 2nd ed. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 312 pp. $29.99 (paper).

c.e.–1800c.e.
timothy tackett. The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. 480 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

c.e.–1914c.e.
adam zamoyski. Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789–1848. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 576 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

c.e.–present
suzanne broderick. Real War vs. Reel War: Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 172 pp. $30.00 (cloth).

sara fieldston. Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 328 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

mark gilbert. Cold War Europe: The Politics of a Contested Continent. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 338 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).

emil kerenji. Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume IV 1942–1943. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 598 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

harry redner. Totalitarianism, Globalization, Colonialism: The Destruction of Civilization Since 1914. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2014. 353 pp. $44.95 (cloth).

brian douglas tennyson. Canada’s Great War, 1914–1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 260 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

General

robert m. carmack. Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 406 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

gordon h. chang. Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 336 pp. $32.95 (cloth).

derek cheung and eric brach. Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 352 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

andrew denning. Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. 256 pp. $29.95 (paper).

john stratton hawley. A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 464 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

robert b. marks. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, 3rd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 280 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).

john w. o’malley s.j. The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 160 pp. $22.00 (cloth).

albert l. park. Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese-Occupied Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 320 pp. $56.00 (cloth).

harry render. Beyond Civilization: Society, Culture, and the Individual in the Age of Globalization. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2014. 423 pp. $34.95 (paper).

j. m. roberts and odd arne westad. The History of the World, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 1280 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

vera schwarcz. Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China, and Beyond. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. 192 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

miranda seymour. The Pity of War: England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 528 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

richard b. simon, mojgan behmand, and thomas burke, eds. Teaching Big History. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. 448 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

valerie raleigh yow. Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 3rd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 446 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $39.00 (paper).