This Week’s New Books–Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America, Plus Three Paperback Releases

05/03/2013 | | 18th-Century History and Culture, African Studies, American History & Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, European & World History, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, Religious Studies

Trade, Land, Power
Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America

Daniel K. Richter

384 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus.

Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4500-4 | $45.00 | £29.50

Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0830-6 | $45.00s | £29.50

In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Read more . . .

Now in Paperback

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

Johan Elverskog

352 pages | 6 x 9 | 48 illus.

Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4237-9 | $69.95 | £45.50

Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2259-3 | $29.95 | £19.50

EBook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0531-2 | $29.95 | £19.50

A volume in the Encounters with Asia series

This groundbreaking work challenges contemporary stereotypes by revealing how both Buddhist and Muslim religious traditions were shaped by a millennium of cross-cultural exchange along the Silk Road from Iran to China. Read more . . .

Now in Paperback

Empires of God
Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic

Edited by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster

344 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus.

Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4289-8 | $59.95 | £39.00

Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2260-9 | $27.50 | £18.00

Focusing on the formative period of European exploration, settlement, and conquest in the Americas, from roughly 1500 to 1760, Empires of God brings together literary scholars and historians of the English, French, and Spanish Americas to demonstrate the power of religious ideas and narratives to create kingdoms both imagined and real. Read more . . .

Now in Paperback

Along an African Border
Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets

Sónia Silva

188 pages | 6 x 9 | 37 illus.

Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4293-5 | $39.95 | £26.00

Paper Apr 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2268-5 | $24.95 | £16.50

A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series

Anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past. Read more . . .

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