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Documents and Bibliographies

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Comparative/World

Ishay, Micheline R., editor. The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present. 2d ed. New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. xxviii, 559. Cloth $135.00, paper $38.95.

Kennedy, David M., editor. The Library of Congress World War II Companion. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. xxv, 982. $45.00.

McKendrick, Scott, and Kathleen Doyle. Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture. London: The British Library. 2007. Pp. 160. £20.00.

Millett, Allan R.The Korean War. (The Essential Bibliography Series.) Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2007. Pp. xi, 235. $14.95.

Asia

Apparao, Gurajada. Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, A Play from Colonial India. Translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 226. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95.

Canada and the United States

Adams, Abigail, and John Adams. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. Edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xx, 508. $35.00.

Bloomfield, Susanne George, and Eric Melvin Reed. Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 280. $19.95.

DeWitt, Larry W., Daniel B´land, and Edward D. Berkowitz. Social Security: A Documentary History. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. 2008. Pp. xiv, 557. $115.00.

Edison, Thomas A.The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 6: Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881–March 1883. Edited by Paul B. Israel et al. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. xlvi, 893. $90.00.

Eliason, Eric A., editor. The J. Golden Kimball Stories. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 186. Cloth $50.00, paper $20.00.

Flamm, Michael W., and David Steigerwald, editors. Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives. (Debating Twentieth-Century America.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2008. Pp. vi, 213. Cloth $60.00, paper $19.95.

Haldeman, Bonnie. Memories of the Branch Davidians: The Autobiography of David Koresh's Mother. Edited by Catherine Wessinger. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 199. $24.95.

Hall, Randal L.Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. (New Directions in Southern History.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. ix, 255. $40.00.

Henry, Joseph. The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 11: January 1866–May 1878, The Smithsonian Years. Edited by Marc Rothenberg. Assisted by Kathleen W. Dorman et al. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution in association with Science History Publications/USA. 2007. Pp. lxvi, 726. $110.00.

Krick, Robert K.Civil War Weather in Virginia. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2007. Pp. 178. $39.95.

Lewis, Catherine M., and J. Richard Lewis, editors. Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2007. Pp. xxxiv, 242. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.

Lyman, Theodore. Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman. Edited by David W. Lowe. (Civil War in the North.) Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 518. $45.00.

McIntosh, Al. Selected Chaff: The Wartime Columns of Al McIntosh, 1941–1945. St. Paul, Minn.: Zenith Press. 2007. Pp. 272. $14.95.

Mersman, Joseph J.The Whiskey Merchant's Diary: An Urban Life in the Emerging Midwest. Edited by Linda A. Fisher. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2007. Pp. xxx, 278. Cloth $49.95, paper $24.95.

Morgan, Dale L.Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trails: Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849–1869. Edited and introduction by Richard L. Saunders. Logan: Utah State University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 424. $39.95.

Stone, Jon R., and Carlos R. Piar, editors. Readings in American Religious Diversity. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. 2007. Pp. vii, 580. $85.00.

Telfair, Mary. Mary Telfair to Mary Few: Selected Letters, 1802–1844. Edited by Betty Wood. (Publications of the Southern Texts Society.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2007. Pp. xxxix, 317. $44.95.

Vare, Robert, editor. The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly: 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History. Assisted by Daniel B. Smith. New York: Doubleday. 2007. Pp. xxviii, 647. $35.00.

Willard, Frances E.Let Something Good Be Said: Speeches and Writings of Frances E. Willard. Edited by Carolyn De Swarte Gifford and Amy R. Slagell. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. xlviii, 256. $45.00.

Caribbean and Latin America

Ching, Erik, Christina Buckley, and Angélica Lozano-Alonso. Reframing Latin America: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 349. Cloth $70.00, paper $29.95.

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Adorno, Theodor W.History and Freedom: Lectures 1964–1965. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Reprint. Cambridge: Polity. 2007. Pp. xix, 348. Cloth $69.95, paper $29.95.

Adorno, Theodor W.Letters to His Parents 1939–1951. Edited by Christoph Gödde and Henri Lonitz. Translated by Wieland Hoban. Cambridge: Polity. 2006. Pp. vii, 397. $45.00.

Bembo, Ambrosio. The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo. Translated by Clara Bargellini. Foreword by Anthony Welch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 451. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.

Black, Jeremy. War in European History 1494–1660. (Essential Bibliography.) Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books. 2006. Pp. ix, 118. $14.95.

Elias, Norbert. An Essay on Time. Volume 9, The Collected Works of Norbert Elias. Edited by Steven Loyal and Stephen Mennell. Rev. ed. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 172. $102.95.

Elias, Norbert. Involvement and Detachment. Volume 8, The Collected Works of Norbert Elias. Edited by Stephen Quilley. Rev. ed. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 252. $99.95.

Fest, Joachim. Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect. Translated by Patrick Camiller. Cambridge: Polity. 2007. Pp. vi, 220. $29.95.

Flinders, Matthew. "Gratefull to Providence": The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary and Man-Midwife, 1775–1802. Volume 1: 1775–1784. Edited by Martyn Beardsley and Nicholas Bennett. (The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. With the Lincoln Record Society. 2007. Pp. xxv, 166. $55.00.

Grimm, Hannelore, and Armin Mruck. Deutsche Lebenswege zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie. (Oldenburger Beiträge zur DDR- und DEFA-Forschung, number 7.) Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. 2007. Pp. 228.

Hudemann, Rainer, and Armin Heinin, editors. Das Saarland zwischen Frankreich, Deutschland und Europa, 1945–1957: Ein Quellen- und Arbeitsbuch. Assisted by Johannes Gro\Smann and Marcus Hahn. (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Saarländesgeschichte und Volksforschung, number 41.) With CD-ROM. Saarbrücken: Kommission Für Saarländische Landesgeschichte und Volksforschung. 2007. Pp. xii, 676. €29.00.

Kuropka, Joachim, editor. Streitfall Galen: Studien und Dokumente. Münster: Aschendorff. 2007. Pp. 540. €29.80.

Loomba, Ania, and Jonathan Burton, editors. Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. xvi, 300. Cloth $99.95, paper $29.95.

Rummel, Erika, and Milton Kooistra, editors. Reformation Sources: The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland. (Essays and Studies, number 10.) Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. 2007. Pp. 246.

Middle East and Northern Africa

Baker, Colin F.Qurˀan Manuscripts: Calligraphy, Illumination, Design. London: The British Library. 2007. Pp. 112. £20.00.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Annals of the Kings of Assyria: The Cuneiform Texts with Translations and Transliterations from the Original Documents. (The Kegan Paul Library of Archaeology and History.) London and New York: Kegan Paul. 2007. Pp. lxxv, 391. $382.50.

Palestine and Transjordan. (Geographical Handbook Series.) London and New York: Kegan Paul. 2006. Pp. xv, 621. $425.00.

Pringle, Denys. The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume 3, The City of Jerusalem. Assisted by Peter E. Leach. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xxv, 506. $195.00.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Haring, Lee. Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean. Translations by Claudie Ricaud and Dawood Auleear. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xxv, 413. $65.00.

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