Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient: Volume 40 (1997)

Issue: 1

• Borders, Territory and Nationality in the Ancient Near East and Armenia (pp. 1-29) Grosby, Steven
• La Fabrication des Lames Damassées en Orient (pp. 30-72) Rāġib, Yūsuf
• Alien Regimes and Mental States (pp. 73-89) Standen, Naomi
• A Tale of Two Cities: Edo and Paris (pp. 90-106) Boot, W.J.
• Southeast Asia and the Costs of Modernity: Reflections on “The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia” (pp. 107-116) McCoy, Alfred
• MOHAMMED EL FAÏZ, L'Agronomie de la Mésopotamie antique. Analyse du “Livre de l'agriculture nabatéenne” de Qûtâmä. Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, V. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1995, 332 pp. Nlg. 180/US $103.00. (pp. 117-122) Lehmann, Gunnar
• SAMI ZUBAIDA and RICHARD TAPPER, eds., Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 1994. 302 pp. £34.50. (pp. 122-124) Garbutt, Nina
• MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN, Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press, 1994, 199 pp. £30.00/$54.95. (pp. 124-128) Mouton, Jean-Michel
• NICOLAS VATIN, L'Ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem, l'Empire ottoman et la Méditerranée orientale entre les deux sièges de Rhodes 1480-1522 (Collection Turcica Vol. VII) (Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, 1994) 2400 BFr. (pp. 128-130) Fleet, Kate
• HURI ISLAMOĞLU-INAN, State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire; Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia During the Sixteenth Century, Leiden, New York, Köln, Brill, 1994, XVII + 293 pp. + 3 cartes. Hfl. 130/$74.50. (pp. 130-135) Beldiceanu, Irène
• AMY SINGER, Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 201-XVII. maps. £35.00/$49.95. (hardback); £17.95/$22.95 (paperback). (pp. 135-138) Rafeq, Abdul-Karim
• DONALD QUATAERT (ed.), Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. $16.95. (pp. 138-140) Herzog, Christoph
• Etudes Safavides, sous la direction de JEAN CALMARD, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Paris-Téhéran, 1993, p. 383. (pp. 140-142) Newman, Andrew
• STEPHEN FREDERIC DALE, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, 162 pages, maps, photographs, notes tables, appendix, bibliography, index (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), ISBN 0-521-45460-3 £30.00. (pp. 142-143) Gommans, Jos
• JOHN CHAFFEE, The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China: A Social History of Examinations. New Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, xxxviii + 280 pp., appendices, illustrations, and tables. ISBN 0 7914 2423 5. $19.95. (pp. 143-147) Clark, Hugh
• HARRIET T. ZURNDORFER, China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995). iv + 380 pages. Appendices, indexes. Price: NLG 174./$99.00 (pp. 147-148) Cohen, Paul

Issue: 2

• Women's History in Global Perspective (pp. 149-152) Zurndorfer, Harriet
• Man Versus Woman (pp. 153-173) Toivari, Jaana
• Women and Wage Labour in the Medieval Islamic West: Legal Issues in an Economic Context (pp. 174-206) Shatzmiller, Maya
• A Woman Timar Holder in Ankara Province During the Second Half of the 16th Century (pp. 207-238) Reindl-Kiel, Hedda
• Describing the Other to Get at the Self: Byzantine Women in Arabic Sources (8th-11th Centuries) (pp. 239-250) El-Cheikh, Nadia
• Gender, Loyalty, and the Reproduction of the Wang Zhaojun Legend: Some Social Ramifications of Drama in the Late Ming (pp. 251-282) Besio, Kimberly

Issue: 3

• Ottoman Grain Exports from Western Anatolia at the End of the Fourteenth Century (pp. 283-293) Fleet, Kate
• JEAN JACQUET, Karnak-Nord VII, le Trésor de Thoutmosis Ier. Installations antérieures ou postérieures au monument. Fouilles de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, tome XXXVI. Institut française d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1994. Pp. x + 187, 39 figs. in text + 67 pls. ISBN 2-7247-0152-6. (pp. 294-295) Spence, Kate
• PIERRE GRANDET, Le Papyrus Harris I (BM 9999). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, Bibliothèque d'Étude, CIX. Cairo, 1994, vols. 1 (xxxix + 342 pp.) and 2 (xvi + 352 pp., 80 plates). (pp. 295-299) Haring, Ben
• JAN ASSMANN, Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom, London: Kegan Paul International, 1995. £55.00/$93.50. (pp. 299-300) Poo, Mu-chou
• ULSHÖFER, ANDREEA MARIA, Die altassyrischen Privaturkunden (Freiburger Altorientalische Studien, Beihefte: Altassyrische Texte und Untersuchungen, Bd. 4), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995, 8vo, 503 pp., price: DM 186.—. (pp. 301-304) Veenhof, Klaas
• AIMAN IBRAHIM. Der Herausbildungsprozess der arabisch-islamischen Staates: Eine quellen Kritische Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen des staatlichen Zentralisierungstendenzen: Berlin, Klaus Schwartz Verlag, 1994, 265 pp. (pp. 305-305) Kennedy, Hugh
• ʿABDULLāH ʿALWĪ ḥāJĪ ḥASSAN, Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic Univesity, Islamabad: Publication no 92, 1994, XIX + 266 pp. (pp. 305-307) RāĠib, Yūsuf
• YASSINE ESSID, A Critique of the Origins of Islamic Economic Thought, E.J. Brill, Leiden, New York, Köln, 1995. $ 85/NLG 131.50. (pp. 307-310) Bianquis, Thierry
• JEAN AUBIN: Emirs Mongols et Vizirs Persans dans les Remous de l'Acculturation. Paris 1995. (Studia Iranica. Cahier 15.) 96 pp. 720 BF. (pp. 310-312) Gronke, Monika
• RADHI DAGHFOUS, Le Yaman Islāmique des Origines jusqu'à l'Avenement des Dynasties Autonomes (Ier-IIIème S./VIIème-IXème S.) Tunis: Université de Tunis I. 2 vols. Publications de la Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, 1995, 1079 pages. Serie 4: Histoire, Volume: XXV 1. (pp. 312-314) Rex Smith, G.
• Islamic Urban Studies, Historical Review and Perspectives. Edited by Masashi Haneda and Toru Miura. London: Kegan Paul International, 1994. 365 pp. £55.00. (pp. 314-318) Garcin, Jean-Claude
• ANDRÉ RAYMOND, Le Caire des Janissaires: L'apogée de la ville ottomane sous ʿAbd al-Rahmân Katkhuda. Paris: CNRS editions. 1995 FF 130. (pp. 318-320) Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
• ELENA FRANGAKIS-SYRETT, The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700-1820), Athenes, centre for Asia Minor Studies, 1992, XX + 375 p. illustrations, cartes, annexes, bibliographie et index. (pp. 320-322) Bilici, Faruk
• F.R. ALLCHIN, The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia; The Emergence of Cities and States. With contributions from B. Allchin, G. Erdosy, R.A.E. Coningham and D.K. Chakra-barti. Cambridge University Press, 1995, 371 pp., 107 b/w illustrations. ISBN 0521376955 (paperback) £22.95 (US$29.95); ISBN 0521375479 (hardback) £50.00 (US$74.95). (pp. 322-323) Deitch-van der Meulen, W.
• IAN MABBETT and DAVID CHANDLER, The Khmers. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. £12.99. (pp. 323-325) Ledgerwood, Judy
• JOSEPH F. FLETCHER, JR. Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia. Aldershot: Variorum 1995. £45.00. (pp. 325-327) Wong, Bin
• ERIK TROMBERT, Le Crédit à Dunhuang: Vie matérielle et société en Chine médiévale. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1995. vii + 259 pp., 2 plates. (pp. 327-330) Barrett, T.H.
• CHAI-SIK CHUNG, A KOREAN CONFUCIAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE MODERN WORLD - YI HANG-NO AND THE WEST. Korea Research Monograph 20. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. ix, 268 p. $13.50. (pp. 330-330) Deuchler, Martina
• CONRAD D. TOTMAN, The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995). Pp. 159 + xxii. Price $35.00, cloth. (pp. 331-332) Saito, Osamu

Issue: 4

• “Modernity” and its Contents in the Economic and Social History of the Orient (pp. 333-335) H.T.Z
• “Modern” Features in Old Assyrian Trade (pp. 336-366) Veenhof, Klaas
• Peasants and “Modern” Leasing Strategies in Ancient Egypt (pp. 367-390) Eyre, Christopher
• Historicising “Modernity” in Southeast Asia (pp. 391-409) Watson Andaya, Barbara
• From Comparative Sociology to Global History: Britain and India in the Pre-History of Modernity (pp. 410-443) Washbrook, David
• Islamic Revival and Modernity: the Contemporary Movements and the Historical Paradigms (pp. 444-460) Lapidus, Ira
• China and “Modernity”: the Uses of the Study of Chinese History in the Past and the Present (pp. 461-485) Zurndorfer, Harriet