Books Received

3500 b.c.e.–500 c.e.

richard alston. Rome’s Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

500 c.e.–1500 c.e.

simon barton. Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 280 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

1500 c.e.–1800 c.e.

hilary gatti. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

1800 c.e.–1914 c.e.

peter m. beattie. Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. $94.85 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

john a. hall, ove korsgaard, and ove j. pederson, eds. Building the Nation: N. F. S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. 453 pp. $100.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

kevin m. mcgeough. The Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century: Appreciations and Appropriations. 1. Claiming and Conquering. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015. 457 pp. $47.50 (cloth).

smritikumar sarkar. Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830–1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 344 pp. £20.99 (cloth).

angela woollacott. Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 240 pp. £60.00 (cloth).

1914 c.e.–Present

sargon donabed. Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the 20th Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 384 pp. $120.00 (cloth).

seán hand and steven t. katz, eds. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

oleg v. khlevniuk. Stalin, New Biography of a Dictator. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015. 408 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

serhii plokhy. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. New York: Basic Books, 2015. $18.99 (paper).

jordana silverstein. Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. 236 pp. $95.00 (cloth).

General

ian barnes. Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. 240 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

carrie gibson. Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. 480 pp. $28.00 (cloth).

brad glosserman and scott a. snyder. The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 240 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

sigrid wadauer, thomas buchner, and alexander mejstrik, eds. The History of Labour Intermediation: Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. 444 pp. $120.00 (cloth).

gary westfahl. A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History, Volumes 1–3. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2015. 1,373 pp. $310.00 (cloth).