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  • Books Received

500 c.e.–1500 c.e.

paulin ismard. Democracy's Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. 208 pp. $35.00 (hardcover).
t. leslie shear, jr. Trophies of Victory: Public Building in Periklean Athens. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 496 pp. $65.00 (paper).

1500 c.e.–1800 c.e.

eric hinderaker. Boston's Massacre. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University/Belknap Press, 2017. 384 pp. $29.95 (hardcover).
nancy um. Shipped but not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade During Yemen's Age of Coffee. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. 256 pp. $64.00 (hardcover).

1800 c.e.–1914 c.e.

hidetaka hirota. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 320 pp. $35.00 (hardcover).
stephen silverstein. The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 224 pp. $55.00 (hardcover).

1914 c.e.–Present

abou b. bamba. African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $34.95 (paper).
jon k. chang. Burnt by the Sun: The Koreans of the Russian Far East. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. 286 pp. $68.00 (hardcover).

General

john bew. Realpolitik: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 408 pp. $27.95 (hardcover).
catherine m. cameron. Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 234 pp. $40.00 (hardcover).
david rollason. The Power of Place: Rulers and their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 488 pp. $49.95 (hardcover).
nicholas thomas, julie adams, billie lythberg, maia nuku, and amiria salmond, eds. Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. 348 pp. $68.00 (hardcover).
kären wigen, sugimoto fumiko, and cary karacas, eds. Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 336 pp. $45.00 (hardcover).
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