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Table of Contents

Migration and Settlement of the Yuezhi-Kushan: Interaction and Interdependence of Nomadic and Sedentary Societies

Xinru Liu
pp. 261-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0034
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Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Piracy: Maritime Violence in the Western Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf Region during a Long Eighteenth Century

Patricia Risso
pp. 293-319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0039
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From Rapid Change to Stasis: Official Responses to Cholera in British-Ruled India and Egypt: 1860 to c. 1921

S. J. Watts
pp. 321-374
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0047
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Decolonization, Democratization, and Communist Reform: The Soviet Collapse in Comparative Perspective

Robert W. Strayer
pp. 375-406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0042
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Review Article

Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? Kenneth Pomeranz and the Great Divergence

P. H. H. Vries
pp. 407-446
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0046
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Book Reviews

The Origins of Human Society (review)

John H. Bodley
pp. 447-450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0050
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From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites (review)

Colin Renfrew
pp. 450-452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0038
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Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History (review)

Ifi Amadiume
pp. 452-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0048
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Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (review)

Nupur Chaudhuri
pp. 457-459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0054
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Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide (review)

Bella Vivante
pp. 460-462
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0045
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume IV, The Age of Achievement: A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century, Part One: The Historical, Social and Economic Setting, and: The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia (review)

Thomas J. Barfield
pp. 462-464
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0049
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The Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands (review)

Mark McNally
pp. 465-467
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0035
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire (review)

Lawrence Okamura
pp. 468-469
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0036
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The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (review)

Hugh Elton
pp. 470-472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0030
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God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam (review)

Susan H. Farnsworth, Mary Lynn Rampolla
pp. 472-476
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0031
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The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy, and: Mughal India and Central Asia (review)

David Christian
pp. 476-479
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0055
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World-Systems Theory in Practice: Leadership, Production, and Exchange (review)

Peter I. Bogucki
pp. 479-482
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0051
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The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (review)

Arturo Giraldez
pp. 482-485
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0032
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Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion (review)

Kim D. Butler
pp. 485-488
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0053
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Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500-c. 1800, and: Theories of Empire, 1450-1800 (review)

David Robyak
pp. 489-495
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0040
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (review)

Edward R. Slack
pp. 495-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0041
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Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840 (review)

Anne Perez Hattori
pp. 498-501
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0033
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The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization, 1712-1920, and: War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903 (review)

Bruce Vandervort
pp. 501-505
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0044
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Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India (review)

John R. Pincince
pp. 505-508
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0037
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Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race (review)

Julia Ann Clancy-Smith
pp. 508-511
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0057
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Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention (review)

Emily S. Burrill
pp. 512-514
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0052
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Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (review)

Mark Thurner
pp. 514-516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0043
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (review)

David Christian
pp. 516-518
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0056
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The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas (review)

James A. Cook
pp. 518-521
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0058
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