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  • Books Received

3500 b.c.e.-500 c.e.

nayanjot lahiri. Ashoka in Ancient India. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 408 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

500 c.e.-1500 c.e.

doris g. bargen. Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. 392 pp. $59.00 (cloth).
marc morris. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain. New York: Pegasus Books, 2015. 480 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

1500 c.e.-1800 c.e.

bruce ware allen. The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John. Lebanon, N.H.: ForeEdge, University Press of New England, 2015. 344 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
amelia m. glaser. Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukranian Cossack Uprising. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. 320 pp. $70.00 (cloth). [End Page 947]
ana e. schaposchnik. The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 294 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

1800 c.e.-1914 c.e.

richard cockett. Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015. 304 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
christine guth. Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. 272 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

1914 c.e.-Present

todd cleveland. Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. 280 pp. $26.36 (paper).
robert d. crews. Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
james de lorenzi. Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2015. 232 pp. $110.00 (cloth).

General

richard bassett. For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015. 616 pp. $45.00 (cloth). [End Page 948]
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