In this Issue

Table of Contents

Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long Term

David Northrup
pp. 249-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0010
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Malaria and the Peopling of Early Tropical Africa

James L. A. Webb
pp. 270-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0011
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Dying for the Dead: Sati in Universal Context

Jörg Fisch
pp. 293-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0005
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Indigenous Encounters with Christian Missionaries in China and West Africa, 1800-1920: A Comparative Study

David F. Lindenfeld
pp. 327-369
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0006
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Book Reviews

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (review)

Jeremy Black
pp. 371-373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0001
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Encyclopedia of Religion and War (review)

Jeremy Black
pp. 373-374
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0002
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Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (review)

Rachel Dowty
pp. 375-377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0003
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At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (review)

Gray H. Whaley
pp. 377-378
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0012
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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies (review)

Rachel Dowty
pp. 379-381
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0004
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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (review)

John Robert McNeill
pp. 381-383
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0008
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Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe (review)

Louise McReynolds
pp. 383-386
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0009
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Exporting American Architecture, 1870-2000 (review)

James Michael Lindgren
pp. 386-389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0007
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