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Volume 20, 2004

Book Reviews

Matthew S. Gordon, The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra, 200-275 AH/815-889 CE. Suny Series in Medieval Middle East History, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001. xx + 303pp.

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 450 pp. $60.00 (Hard) ISBN: 0804740844

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Esteban Buch. Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History. Translated by Richard Miller. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 327 pp. $27.50 (Hard). ISBN: 0226078124

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James A Secord, Victorian Sensation: the Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xix, 624 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. $35.00 (Cloth).

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Jim Weeks, Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 267 pp. $29.95 (Hard). ISBN: 0691102716.

[Thomas A. Desjardin, These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press, 2003. 246 pp. $26.00 (Hard). ISBN:0306812673.]

Henning, Joseph M. Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations. New York: New York University Press, 2000. $50.00 (Hard). 249 pp. ISBN: 081473605X.

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Alex Zwerdling, Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London. New York: Basic Books, 1998. xvi, 383 pp. ISBN: 0306812673

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Alex Zwerdling, Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London. New York: Basic Books, 1998. xvi, 383 pp. ISBN: 0306812673

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