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Letter
To the Editor:
In his review of Beyond Binary Histories: Reimagining Eurasia to c. 1830, Alan LeBaron acknowledged that this collection achieved its stated objective, namely to demonstrate that Eurasian societies in the early modern period experienced a range of "commonalities" that transcended a binary distinction between Europe and Asia. Yet at the same time, most curiously and with no apparent sense of contradiction, he claimed that the collection, which I edited, failed to deliver on "the promise of something different" (JWH 13:1, spring 2002, pp. 192195).
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