TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

A theory for formation of large empires
Peter Turchin
pp 191 - 217

Dionysus and drama in the Buddhist art of Gandhara
Pia Brancaccio
Xinru Liu
pp 219 - 244

The Eurasian silver century, 1276-1359: commensurability and multiplicity
Akinobu Kuroda
pp 245 - 269

Desirable teeth: the medieval trade in Arctic and African ivory
Kirsten A. Seaver
pp 271 - 292

Among the dissenters: reciprocal ethnography in nineteenth-century Inglistan
Nile Green
pp 293 - 315

European colonial soldiers in the nineteenth century: their role in white global migration and patterns of colonial settlement
Ulbe Bosma
pp 317 - 336

Reviews

The discovery of mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus
By David Abulafia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xxx
illustrations. Hardback £25, ISBN 978-0-300-12582-5.

Daniel A. Segal, pp 337 - 338

Imperial formations Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan and Peter C. Perdue. Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 429. Paperback US$29.95, ISBN 978-1-930618-73-2.
Jeremy Adelman, pp 338 - 339

Possessing the world: taking the measurements of colonisation from the 18th to the 20th century By Bouda Etemad. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. Pp. ix + 250. Hardback US$85, ISBN 978-1845453381.
John Darwin, pp 339 - 341

A global history of modern historiography By Georg G. Iggers and Q. Edward Wang with the assistance of Supriya Mukherjee. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2008. Pp. xii + 436. Paperback £22.99, ISBN 978-0-582-09606-6.
John Tosh, pp 341 - 342

Salvation and globalization in the early Jesuit missions By Luke
Clossey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 327. Hardback £55, ISBN 9780521887441.
Eugenio Menegon, pp 342 - 344

Travellers and cosmographers: studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology Joan-Pau Rubiés. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xiv + 428. Hardback £75, ISBN: 978-0-7546-5936-5.
Nabil Matar, pp 344 - 345