TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
A theory for formation of large empiresPeter Turchinpp 191 - 217
Dionysus and drama in the Buddhist art of GandharaPia BrancaccioXinru Liupp 219 - 244
The Eurasian silver century, 1276-1359: commensurability and multiplicityAkinobu Kurodapp 245 - 269
Desirable teeth: the medieval trade in Arctic and African ivoryKirsten A. Seaverpp 271 - 292
Among the dissenters: reciprocal ethnography in nineteenth-century InglistanNile Greenpp 293 - 315
European colonial soldiers in the nineteenth century: their role in white global migration and patterns of colonial settlementUlbe Bosmapp 317 - 336
Reviews
The discovery of mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of ColumbusBy David Abulafia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xxxillustrations. 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 LukeClossey. 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