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ART BOOK NEWS ANNUAL VOLUME 4: 2008
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Title main entry. Ed. by Sarah Blick.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 200 p. $80.00
A former Keeper of the Museum of London, Spencer (1928-2003) virtually
created the study of medieval pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges. Here
colleagues and other scholars influenced by his work present 13 essays
on his life and on topics that he either began to address or might have
addressed had he lived longer. They include pilgrims’ badge and
ampullai possibly from the Chartreuse, prescriptions and surviving
amulets from late medieval England, and the iconography of late
medieval bicaudal and other felines. No index is provided. Distributed in

North America by The David Brown Book Co.
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Title main entry. Ed. by John H. Falk et al. (Learning innovations)
AltaMira Press, ©2007 315 p. $80.00
Falk et al. (Institute for Learning Innovation, Annapolis) bring together 17
essays that describe how museums are learning institutions. The volume
is part of the National Science Foundation’s initiative In Principle, In
Practice: A Learning Innovation Initiative on Museum Learning. It aims to
collect knowledge about learning in museums, examine where it leads in
terms of practice and community, and consider what still needs to be
learned to face the challenges of the future. Essays cover how people learn
in museums, including discussion of families and school groups and the
role of exhibitions, and how to engage audiences through customized and
personal experiences. The issue of institutional authority, the importance
of socially relevant goals, and issues relating to controversial topics are
explored, as are how to foster a learning-centered culture, and how to
make changes. Contributors are consultants, researchers and scholars, or
are associated with museums in the US, UK, and Australia.
AM7 2007-003783 978-0-7591-0970-4
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Title main entry. Ed. by Barry Lord.
AltaMira Press, ©2007 301 p. $100.00
Savvy curators and museum staff have come to understand that the focus
of the museum is not as much what is going on in the cases as who is
watching what is going on in the cases. This collection of 12 articles
examines the why, who and how of museums, explaining the rationale
for interactive learning environments, describing the basics of museum-
based learning, maximizing the potential of museum learning, making
museums whole-family experiences, and creating bonds with formal

learning institutions and the community at large. Articles on how to
develop resources for museum learning emphasize the role of museum
educators in organizing and budgeting, space and media planning, eval-
uating, marketing, and sustaining participation. The case studies and
examples are inspiring.
Art Book News Annual 2008–1–
Welcome to the fourth issue of Art Book News Annual, a
bibliography of scholarly books for artists, architects, designers,
photographers, art historians, archaeologists, educators,
museum professionals, librarians, and booksellers.
Here you’ll find listings of 1,207 books (from 365 publishers),
arranged by subject, with thoughtfully prepared annotations.
Entries appear as they were originally published in the eight
2007 issues of Reference & Research Book News and SciTech
Book News. Please don’t rely on the price information you see
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them only once, but our “See also” notes will guide you.
Each listing begins with an alpha-numeric Library of
Congress subject code, and the listings progress from
A to Z. For example, the first listing is AC1; the last
entry, on page 126, is Z1033.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Caroline Lang et al.
Ashgate Publishing Co., ©2006 276 p. $99.95
Sending patrons through static displays when they have just come in
from the world of video games may already be a lost cause. In this col-
lection of articles designed to help administrators and curators think of
museums as learning spaces responsive to their audiences, contributors
work from experience to describe understanding and developing audi-
ences at the theoretical, policy and practical levels. Topics include influ-
ences on museum practice, government policy, the public access debate,
prioritizing audience groups, building capacity for sustainable audience
development through networks and partnerships, developing web
resources, evaluation, funding, applied research, audience advocacy, cre-
ating environments for learning, museum professions, and a hint of
where museums will go from here. Topics include responses on such
issues as developing the inclusive model, digital technologies, and taking
collective responsibility for making museums accessible.
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Weaver, Stephanie. (An experienceology guide)

Left Coast Press, ©2007 207 p. $65.00
Weaver has worked in visitor-consulting for the San Diego Zoo and the
Chicago Children’s Museum, among other institutions. Here she offers
advice on creating visitor experiences for museums, parks, zoos, gardens,
and libraries that set them apart from competition and encourage return
and good recommendations. In addition to practical advice, the author
incorporates case studies and theory, including the four realms of expe-
riences: educational, entertainment, esthetic, and escapist. Readers will
find insights on determining what visitors want, motivating staff, and
breaking down the visitor experience by components, among other
topics.
AM121 2006-038334 978-0-7591-0968-1
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Lord, Gail Dexter and Kate Markert.
AltaMira Press, ©2007 153 p. $70.00
This guide covers strategic planning for museums, with discussion of
why they need strategic plans, the roles and responsibilities of those
involved, and an outline of a ten-step process. Further explained are
methods for use by the museum board and staff leadership, cultivating
strategic thinking, aspects of the strategic planning retreat, writing the
plan, implementation, and evaluation. The last chapter focuses on trou-
bleshooting. The book is aimed at management, staff, trustees, volun-
teers, and donors; government and foundation staff, professional
colleagues and service providers, and community and institutional
partners; and teachers and students. Case studies are included by con-
tributors from specific museums in the US and Europe. Lord is affiliated
with a cultural planning firm and Markert is associated with the Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore.
AM121 2007-010448 978-1-933253-04-6
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Title main entry. Ed. by Elizabeth E. Merritt and Victoria Garvin.
Am. Assoc. of Museums, ©2007 118 p. $35.00 (pa)
The editors (the director of the Department of Museum Advancement
and Excellence and the former assistant director of professional edu-
cation at the American Association of Museums) present ten pieces that
give advice on best practices in institutional planning. In addition to pre-
senting a window into institutional planning at their own institution,
they present insider perspectives from the Shady Side Rural Heritage
Society, the National Portrait Gallery, Longwood Gardens, and the New
York Botanical Garden. They also present papers that discuss funding
and finances.
AM122 2006-028807 978-1-933253-07-7
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Title main entry. Ed. by Elizabeth E. Merritt.
Am. Assoc. of Museums, ©2006 199 p. $55.00 (pa)
This reference presents up-to-date statistics on a wide range of institu-
tional activities, including attendance, operating and non- operating
income and expenses, earned income sources, and costs of collections
care. New features in this latest edition include financial trend analysis
from 2000-2005 and commentary on how to develop a successful
financial strategy for a museum. The new worksheet feature allows
administrators to compare a museum’s financial performance to the
field-wide averages and to gain insight into areas of operation that may
need improvement.
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Buck, Rebecca A. and Jean Allman Gilmore.
Am. Assoc. of Museums, ©2007 150 p. $55.00 (pa)
This resource for museum professionals offers clear guidance on solving

a number of problems that typically arise in collections planning and
management. Some of the “conundrums” addressed include unsolicited
doorstep donations, loaned items whose owners cannot be readily
located, and restricted gifts. Sample agreements and other reproducible
forms are provided in the appendix. Buck and Gilmore are also the
authors of The New Museum Registration Methods.
AM151 2006-026269 978-1-4051-3076-9
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Title main entry. Ed. by Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu. (New inter-
ventions in art history)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 254 p. $84.95
Macdonald (social anthropology, U. of Manchester, UK) and Basu (anthro-
pology, U. of Sussex, UK) compile 10 essays by art historians, anthropol-
ogists, curators, and artists from Europe and the US, who put forth the
idea that contemporary exhibitions do more than disseminate
knowledge, but are also experimental practices in “meaning-making”
and means of generating knowledge and experience. Some of the essays
were based on those presented at a panel entitled “Exhibition
Experiments: Technologies and Cultures of Display” at the Anthropology
and Science conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists held
in Manchester in 2003. Subjects discussed in the essays relate to
museums and contemporary museum design, exhibition as film, specific
projects in places such as Chicago and Portugal, social documentary, and
reflexivity.
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Dixon, Susan M.
Univ. of Delaware Press, ©2006 156 p. $55.00
Although the members of the Accademia degli Arcadi largely supported

restraint, elegance and Enlightenment ideals, they were also well aware
of their proximity to the court and the papal curia and the tensions those
views, particularly the participation of women, would create. Therefore
the Arcadians expressed themselves in a less-direct way, in their meeting
gardens, as well as more directly in theater. Dixon (art history, U. of
Tulsa) describes how Arcadian developments of space and the physical
world expressed their views, how their friends and enemies perceived
those views as expressed in their garden and landscape, and how the
Arcadians came to be regarded as social reformers. As the gardens are
currently under renovation this is particularly timely. Distributed by
Associated University Presses.
Art Book News Annual 2008 –2–
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Title main entry.
Information Today, Inc., ©2006 1402 p. $249.00
The fourth edition of this valuable reference includes details of 3,459
grant support programs of government agencies, public and private foun-
dations, corporations, community trusts, unions, educational and profes-
sional associations and special interest organizations. It covers a broad
spectrum of interests from academic and scientific research, project
development, travel and exchange programs, and publication support to
equipment and construction grants, in-service training and competitive
awards and prizes. Support programs are divided into 11 major fields,
which are subdivided into more specific fields. Four indices—subject,
organization and program, geographic, and personnel—facilitate the
user’s search. Individual entries include contact information, areas of
interest, names and types of programs, eligibility, financial data, and sta-
tistics on applicants and awards. The volume begins with an introduction

to program planning and proposal writing (complete with a sample
budget) and a listing of foundations offering new grant programs in
2007.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman.
(Media studies)
Univ. of Calgary Press, ©2006 317 p. $44.95 (pa)
The “mind technologies” Siemens (humanities computing, U. of Victoria,
Canada) and Moorman (a senior policy advisor with the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council, Canada) reference in the title to this
collection of 18 papers is a term that refers to the “computer-assisted
tools, methodologies, and structures that capture the ways in which those
in the arts and humanities carry out the practices associated with their
disciplines.” Presented in the belief that the Canadian academic com-
munity has made an internationally significant contribution to this
realm, the collection contains case studies of innovative projects and
activities that have resulted, including contributions to areas of archival
representation and communication of results; technologies associated
with critical inquiry and analysis; and activities of knowledge transfer,
training, education, and support. Distributed in the US by Michigan State
U. Press.
AZ182 2006-280485 978-0-8020-9037-9
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O’Gorman, Marcel.
U. of Toronto Press, ©2006 141 p. $50.00
O’Gorman (English, U. of Detroit Mercy) explores how the university

environment, founded on the logic of print culture, might be transformed
to suit a digital culture at a time when digital media is influencing every
aspect of our lives. The text examines the philosophy behind the U. of
Detroit Mercy’s Electronic Critique (E- Crit) Program—an interdisciplinary
program combining English, communications, computer information
systems, and art—and how digital media can be incorporated into aca-
demic discourse, scholarly practices, pedagogy, and institutional struc-
tures at any university. For scholars and practitioners concerned with the
practice, and future, of the humanities in higher education.
AZ182 2006-022458 978-0-8204-8857-7
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Morris, Christopher D.
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2007 276 p. $74.95
Morris (English, Norwich U., Vermont) packs literature, religion, phi-
losophy, visual art and popular culture on this road trip to where artists
and writers anticipate the aporia or “pathless place.” Given the aporia is
a world understood as wholly figural, he analyzes the path of American
literature to that not-so-distant place, the linear tropes leading to it by de
Man and Derrida, the implications for theology both within the Christian
Acts of the Apostles and the Four Roads of Taoism, the reflexivity of the
road film and its influence on the intellect and soul, the myriad paths
of popular culture that are in fact only one, whether they be painted as
televised baseball, the graphic novel or the video game, the figural road
as university in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates, and in a nimble
conclusion, the ultimate fate of curriculum and ethics.
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B59 2006-004801 978-0-7425-5175-6
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Title main entry. Ed. by William Irwin and Jorge J. E. Gracia.

Rowman & Littlefield, ©2007 297 p. $28.95 (pa)
While few philosophers would today admit to sharing Plato’s views of the
corrupting influence of poets, one can perhaps hear an echo of Plato’s
hostility in philosophy’s neglect of popular culture. Suggesting that this
stance is misguided, Irwin (philosophy, King’s College) and Gracia (phi-
losophy, State U. of New York at Buffalo) urge that philosophy engage
with popular culture because it may spur greater interest in philosophy
and because it can help philosophy stay engaged with the agora (or the
mall). The first six of the twelve papers they present address theoretical
issues concerning the philosophical study of popular culture, including
the use of allusion in art, the basis of audience ties to popular fiction
characters, the nature of aesthetic communities, and the transactional
value of entertainment. The other six papers use the interpretation of tel-
evision shows, films, children’s stories, comic books, and pop songs to
raise economic, aesthetic, ethical, and political issues.
B824 978-90-420-2180-8
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Krausz, Michael. (Value inquiry book series; v.187)
Editions Rodopi, ©2006 154 p. $46.00 (pa)
Krausz (philosophy, Bryn Mawr College) considers the concepts of inter-
pretation and transformation in the visual arts, in connection with the
emotions and the self. His discussion includes three features of inter-
pretive activity: reference to something separate from itself, judgments
about objects, and elucidation; and he examines works such as Da
Vinci’s Last Supper, Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, Christo and Jean-
Claude’s Gates, Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits, and others, in light of these
features. Some of the information in chapters has been previously pub-
lished elsewhere.
B831 2006-037592 978-0-8248-3177-6

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Lu, Sheldon H.
U. of Hawai’i Pr., ©2007 264 p. $22.00 (pa)
Lu (comparative literature, U. of California, Davis) takes an interesting
interdisciplinary approach to the study of Chinese modernity, starting
from the traditions of the late nineteenth century up to today. As he
advances in time he also advances in technology, starting with art and
literature and working through photography, film and computer media.
He notes that as time progressed male and female bodies and their
pleasures became open topics, and the physical self became not only an
object of perusal but also more intensely subjective. He duly considers
the socialist lifestyle and its influence upon the spirit and sense of liter-
ature and the arts, and examines Chinese urban and artistic space in
terms of the social and political demands of China’s governance. He also
comments upon how globalization and the rising Chinese economy have
brought art into commercial and popular culture.
B2430 2006-017387 978-0-8166-4516-9
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Labbie, Erin Felicia.
U. of Minnesota Press, ©2006 264 p. $25.00 (pa)
Labbie (English, Bowling Green State U.) argues that French psychoan-
alyst Jacques Lacan (1901-81) can be considered a medievalist because he
cites courtly love poetics as a means of developing and articulating his
theory of desire, and because his methodologies follow those established
by the medieval scholastic scholars who sought to determine the potential
for the human subject to know and to represent real universal categories.
B2430 2005-010232 978-0-8204-7862-3
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Slade, Andrew. (Currents in comparative romance languages and litera-

tures; v.146)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2007 136 p. $58.95
Looking closely at the work of the three writers, Slade (philosophy, U. of
Dayton, Ohio) argues that the contemporary thought of the sublime
attends to the demands of the historical situation in its ethical, political,
and artistic dimensions. The aesthetic of the sublime in art and literature
best informs the understanding of 20th-century art in general, he says,
and this category becomes the privileged mode in the attempt to bear
witness to the truth of the historical situation in the mostly highly
developed countries of the world.
Art Book News Annual 2008–3–
B2758 978-0-826-48778-0
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Kirwan, James. (Continuum studies in philosophy)
Continuum Publishing Group, ©2006 200 p. $39.95 (pa)
Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment is both seminal in the study of
aesthetics and problematic in its assertions about taste and desire.
Kirwan (Anglo-American studies, Kobe U.) re-examines Kant’s text to find
new solutions, working from recent research on the Critique and its con-
texts. He finds new relationships between the subjective and the uni-
versal in taste, the nature and the dependency of the sublime to the
observer, and the issue of the “true” and “false” sublime, and the rela-
tionship of free or dependent beauty to what Kant called “fantastic
desire.” This is a paperbound reprint of a 2004 book.
B2949 2006-026883 0-8101-2362-2
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Title main entry. Ed. by Stephen Houlgate. (Topics in historical phi-
losophy)
Northwestern U. Press, ©2007 352 p. $29.95 (pa)
Hegel’s ideas on aesthetics raised dialogue from the moment of their first

publication, and this collection of articles covers a wide range of the
topics still under discussion, including the conceptual basis of Hegel’s
organization of his aesthetics and the application of that through to
architecture, painting, music and tragedy. Not all of the contributors here
are disciples of Hegel, so the mix is lively as are the articles, which cover
the symbolic and the classical in Romantic art, Hegel’s approach to archi-
tecture and the beauty of sculpture, the eccentricity inherent in painting,
music, theories of tragedy, the end and the future of art, post-Hegelian
reflections on the end of art and nature, abstract art, religion and the
modernity of Hegel’s approach to art, the resulting “religion” of art, and
the testy relationship between Hegel and the Romantics.
B3376 2006-033278 978-0-7391-1562-6
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Paden, Roger. (Toposophia)
Lexington Books, ©2007 209 p. $26.95 (pa)
Paden (philosophy, George Mason U.) was innocently writing about the
history of utopianism in political philosophy and urban planning, when
he ran across a reference to a house that philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein (1889-1951) designed and built for his sister in Vienna
between 1926 and 1928. Like others before him, he finds connections
between the house and his philosophy, but takes a new approach by
focusing on the philosopher’s substance rather than his style of writing.
He hopes to get back to that utopianism matter now.
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BF109 2006-033015 978-0-393-32955-1
HHooww ttoo rreeaadd LLaaccaann ((rreepprriinntt,, 22000066))
Zizek, Slavoj. (How to read)
W.W. Norton, ©2007 132 p. $11.95 (pa)

In this American reprint of Zizek’s (humanities, Birkbeck College) 2006
text, the author examines a selection of extracts from Lacan’s written
works, analyzing them in detail to reveal their central ideas. For Lacan,
psychoanalysis is a procedure of reading, and each chapter reads a
passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy,
art, or popular ideology.
BF241 2005-019299 978-0-19-517691-9
IInn tthhee mmiinndd’’ss eeyyee;; JJuulliiaann HHoocchhbbeerrgg oonn tthhee ppeerrcceeppttiioonn ooff
ppiiccttuurreess,, ffiillmmss,, aanndd tthhee wwoorrlldd
Hochberg, Julian. Ed. by Mary A. Peterson et al.
Oxford U. Press, ©2007 634 p. $75.00
This volume broadens the audience for the seminal work of Hochberg
(retired from Columbia U.) in the still not fully-focused field of visual per-
ception. Peterson (U. of Arizona) and fellow cognitive scientists at the U.
of New South Wales and the State U. of New York School of Optometry
introduce 20 of Hochberg’s previously published papers over the past 50
years and commentaries on them. With his ingenious experiments and
simplicity principle serving as springboards, discussion focuses on per-
ception as a constructive process: e.g., the role of schematic (mental
structure) maps, perceptual organization, and the nature of movies in the
mind’s eye.
BF531 2006-032704 978-0-307-33788-7
EEmmoottiioonnaall wweellllnneessss;; ttrraannssffoorrmmiinngg ffeeaarr,, aannggeerr,, aanndd
jjeeaalloouussyy iinnttoo ccrreeaattiivvee eenneerrggyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Osho.
Harmony Books, ©2007 293 p. $22.00
Osho (1931-90), the well known teacher of self-directed individual spiri-
tuality, explains the nature of emotions, how to reclaim inner harmony,
and watchfulness as the key to transformation. Suggested meditations
and exercises are included. The material has been compiled from various

discourses to live audiences. There is no index.
BF1591 1-905125-08-9
TThhrroouugghh aa ggllaassss ddaarrkkllyy;; mmaaggiicc,, ddrreeaammss && pprroopphheeccyy iinn
aanncciieenntt EEggyypptt
Title main entry. Ed. by Kasia Szpakowska.
Classical Press of Wales, ©2006 274 p. $90.00
Egyptologists gathered in September 2003 at Baskerville Hall in Wales to
share information on current investigations into phenomena related to
magic, dreams, and prophecy in Ancient Egypt. Their topics include
corn-mummies as amulets of life, Egyptian dream exegesis from a com-
parative perspective, a black cat from the right and a scarab on your
head, and the power of knots and knotting in Ancient Egypt. Distributed
in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
AAEESSTTHHEETTIICCSS
BH19 2006-034893 978-0-8204-8810-3
BBeeaauuttyy aanndd tthhee aabbjjeecctt;; iinntteerrddiisscciipplliinnaarryy ppeerrssppeeccttiivveess
Title main entry. Ed. by Leslie Boldt-Irons et al. (Studies on themes and
motifs in literature; v.88)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2007 295 p. $76.95
Attesting to the importance of concepts of the beautiful and the repulsive
in life and art, these 18 essays consider the binary opposition beauty/the
abject from multiple theoretical perspectives, through a variety of media,
and across several temporal frames. The contributors examine the
meanings and depictions of beauty and the abject in painting, photog-
raphy, film, literature, cultural studies, architecture and linguistics, in the
images of Renaissance portraiture and James Bond films. The editors are
all from Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
BH39 978-90-420-2222-5
AAeesstthheettiiccss
Sesemann, Vasily. Ed. by Leonidas Donskis. Trans. by Mykolas Drunga.

(On the boundary of two worlds; identity, freedom, and moral imagi-
nation in the Baltics; 8)
Editions Rodopi, ©2007 279 p. $81.00 (pa)
Though written many years earlier, Lithuanian philosopher Sesemann’s
(1884-1963) introduction to aesthetics was published only in 1970, in
Lithuanian. Donskis offers an introduction that puts it in the context of
Lithuanian and Eastern European philosophy, and explains his methods
of analysis. Among the topics are the beauty of time, the problem of
artistic creativity, a historical survey of aesthetic theories, and the classi-
fication of types of art. Only names are indexed.
BH39 2007-013079 978-1-4331-0069-7
TThhee aaeesstthheettiicc hheerrmmeenneeuuttiiccss ooff HHaannss GGeeoorrgg GGaaddaammeerr aanndd
HHaannss uurrss vvoonn BBaalltthhaassaarr
Bourgeois, Jason Paul. (American university studies series; VII,
Theology and religion; v.268)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ©2007 144 p. $59.95
Gadamer (1900-2002) and Balthasar (1905-1988) are rarely seen together
within the field of Roman Catholic theology, but Bourgeois (theology,
Quincy U., Illinois) seeks deep structural affinities in the aesthetics and
hermeneutics in both, as expressed through shared metaphysical and
anthropological assumptions about the dialogical nature of truth and
interpretation. There is no index.
BH39 2006-937940 978-0-7618-3678-0
AAeesstthheettiicc lliiffee;; tthhee ppaasstt aanndd pprreesseenntt ooff aarrttiissttiicc ccuullttuurreess
Redner, Harry.
Univ. Press of America, ©2007 496 p. $49.95 (pa)
Responding to the imbalance in the arts between the inherited wealth of
the past and the impoverishment of the present, Redner explores features
of past societies that favored the creation of art and how they are missing
today. He covers general aesthetics or art theory, the history of art or

artistic cultures, and a critique of judgment or criticism of criticism.
Art Book News Annual 2008 –4–
BH39 2006-028408 978-0-8047-5488-0
TThhee aaeesstthheettiicc ppaatthhss ooff pphhiilloossoopphhyy;; pprreesseennttaattiioonn iinn KKaanntt,,
HHeeiiddeeggggeerr,, LLaaccoouuee LLaabbaarrtthhee,, aanndd NNaannccyy
Ross, Alison. (Cultural memory in the present)
Stanford U. Press, ©2007 236 p. $24.95 (pa)
Ross (critical theory, Monash U.) finds the paths of these worthies cross
to some extent in the a case of aesthetics, particularly in the case of
Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy on the notion of presentation.
She starts by describing those individual and collective paths, their
origins and their contexts, then analyzes the formulation of the problem
of presentation in Kant’s doctrine of taste, the pragmatic anthropology in
Kant’s project of aesthetic representation in the third Critiques,
Heidegger’s reading of Kant and historicism of relations of presentation,
technology and art as relations of presentation in Heidegger, Lacoue-
Babarthe’s figuring of the political end and Nancy’s touch of the limits
of presentation. The result is well-paced, subtle and yet often surprising.
BH39 2006-006598 978-0-8047-4424-9
TThhee eenndd ooff aarrtt;; rreeaaddiinnggss iinn aa rruummoorr aafftteerr HHeeggeell
Geulen, Eva. Trans. by James McFarland.
Stanford U. Press, ©2006 206 p. $19.95 (pa)
Geulen (German, U. of Bonn) examines the notions of Hegel, Nietzsche,
Benjamin, Adorno, Heidegger, Holderlin and others on the fate of the arts
in modernity and postmodernity, constantly asking why there is a com-
pulsion to say art is at an end. She plays the thoughts of each against
each other, seeking out their motivations and collective obligations to
declare that all the great work of art may have been done, analyzing the
turning points and revelations they found in their own work and that of
their predecessors and contemporaries. Particularly interesting is the

chapter on Heidegger and myth and the epilogue that comments on what
Geulen calls “the mysterious yearning for the chasm.”
BH39 2006-043022 0-89503-306-2
EEvvoolluuttiioonnaarryy aanndd nneeuurrooccooggnniittiivvee aapppprrooaacchheess ttoo aaeesstthheettiiccss,,
ccrreeaattiivviittyy,, aanndd tthhee aarrttss
Title main entry. Ed. by Colin Martindale et al. (Foundations and fron-
tiers in aesthetics)
Baywood Publishing Co., ©2007 247 p. $49.95
The underlying notion is that because aesthetics, art, and creativity are
present in all human societies, they must have some biological and evo-
lutionary function. The topics include an evolutionary model of artistic
and musical creativity, cognitive poetics and poetry recital, the infor-
mation approach to human sciences, a neural-network theory of beauty,
and whether artistic creativity and affective disorders are connected. The
editors are from psychology and arts, so perhaps the individual contrib-
utors are as well.
BH39 2006-026856 978-0-7546-5707-1
RReefflleeccttiioonnss oonn aaeesstthheettiicc jjuuddggmmeenntt aanndd ootthheerr eessssaayyss
Tilghman, Benjamin.
Ashgate Publishing Co., ©2006 176 p. $99.95
Tilghman (Kansas State U.) finds himself to be consistently anti-theo-
retical but nonetheless Wittgensteinian. To prove it here he keeps firmly
in mind Wittgenstein’s remark that ontology is best understood as
grammar as he looks behind theories to get a clearer view of essential
problems and their solutions. He seeks to emphasize the importance of
the representation of the human in art and our human response to art,
with the idea that reflection upon life and the importance of art within
in is the best way to think seriously about both. Along the way he reflects
upon the nature of the literary work of art, aesthetic descriptions and
“secondary senses,” the ontology of literature, understanding people and

understanding art, aesthetic theory, the importance of nonsense, Le Brun,
understanding of culture through its architecture and painting, language
and painting, literature and morality, and a conceptual dimension of art
history.
BH85 2007-007389 978-1-4051-7355-1
GGlloobbaall tthheeoorriieess ooff tthhee aarrttss aanndd aaeesstthheettiiccss
Title main entry. Ed. by Susan L. Feagin.
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 146 p. $39.95 (pa)
Twelve essays make up this collection, which focuses on the theories and
practices of arts around the world, with specific attention to those that
have been ignored or marginalized by analytics or Anglo-American aes-
thetics and philosophy of art. It also aims to extend ideas about aesthetics
and art. Some of the topics: Chinese visual artists and their use of con-
temporary forms of Western art, musical traditions in Vietnam, theories
of Islamic art, the function of the gamelan in central Java, Japanese
architecture, and Balinese aesthetics. Contributors are scholars of phi-
losophy, art, aesthetics, and criticism, and are based around the world.
There is no index.
BH202 2006-618809 0-8264-8796-3
AArrtt aanndd ffeeaarr ((rreepprriinntt,, 22000033))
Virilio, Paul. Trans. by Julie Rose. (Continuum impacts)
Continuum Publishing Group, ©2006 61 p. $16.95 (pa)
This text was first published in France under the title La procédure silence
(2000, Editions Galilee). The current publication is a reprint of the
English version, with translation and a preface provided by Julie Rose,
which was published in 2003 by Continuum. In the text, Virilio (director,
École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris) presents two essays on the devel-
opment of art and science during the 20th century, which further
develop his earlier theory on the “aesthetics of disappearance.” Virilio
reevaluates 20th-century theories of modern art and duration, the spoken

word and the right to stay silent in an era that is increasingly shaped by
the shrill sonority of contemporary art.
BH301 2007-416618 978-90-420-2125-9
NNeeoo aavvaanntt ggaarrddee
Title main entry. Ed. by David Hopkins. (Avant garde critical studies;
20)
Editions Rodopi, ©2006 454 p. $132.00
Perhaps through attrition, perhaps through sheer tenacity, the avant-
garde of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s is deemed ripe for a re-reading.
Fortunately these 20 articles take an interdisciplinary approach and has
the advantage of enough time passing to insert a modicum of distance,
although certainly not reverence. Topics include the fine arts, with con-
tributions on Duchamp and Morris and their takes on death and irony,
work across art forms, such as neo-dada performance art and concrete
poetry as well as film, work at the periphery, such as that in Brazil’s self-
styled position as vanguard of the 1950s, the attempt to produce avant-
garde radio, the trouble with gender and the avant-garde, the new
political situationalist avant-garde, and theoretical reflections ranging
from nature and ecology to the uses of structure and repetition.
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BL325 978-0-8020-9013-3
VViirrggiinniittyy rreevviissiitteedd;; ccoonnffiigguurrttiioonnss ooff tthhee uunnppoosssseesssseedd bbooddyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Bonnie MacLachlan and Judith Fletcher.
(Phoenix supplementary; v.44; Studies in gender; v.1)
U. of Toronto Press, ©2006 204 p. $55.00
Art historians and other scholars of the humanities from Canada,
Britain, and the US explore the concept and representation of virginity
from classical times to the work of Margaret Atwood. Their topics
include the invention of virginity on Olympus, the chastity of women and
the safety of the Roman state, images of the crucified virgin saint in

Medieval art, and play and empowerment in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie
Carmina.
BL503 2005-015985 1-904768-90-3
TThhee eenndd tthhaatt ddooeess;; aarrtt,, sscciieennccee aanndd mmiilllleennnniiaall
aaccccoommpplliisshhmmeenntt
Title main entry. Ed. by Cathy Gutierrez and Hillel Schwartz.
(Millennialism and society)
Equinox Publishing Limited, ©2006 308 p. $26.95 (pa)
Generated by the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston U., this last in a
set of three volumes examines influential millennialist movements and
texts. Gutierrez (religion, Sweet Briar College, Virginia) and Schwartz
(cultural historian/visiting scholar, U. of California, San Diego) introduce
19 offerings that include poems and studies of historical and contem-
porary end-time views. The eclectic topics discussed include Christian
apocalyptic fiction, Spiritualism, Y2K, and Seattle’s Space Needle in a
doomsday scenario. The glossary defines utopic and dystopic terms.
Distributed in North America by David Brown Book Co.
BL619 2006-032416 978-1-84593-225-1
RReelliiggiioouuss ttoouurriissmm aanndd ppiillggrriimmaaggee ffeessttiivvaallss mmaannaaggeemmeenntt;;
aann iinntteerrnnaattiioonnaall ppeerrssppeeccttiivvee
Title main entry. Ed. by Razaq Raj and Nigel D. Morpeth.
CABI Publishing, ©2007 227 p. $110.00
In case studies, researchers in tourism from Europe, China, Australia,
and Canada present personal, theoretical, and empirical insights into pil-
grimage, religion, and tourism. They explore increasing linkages and
interconnections between shared sacred and secular spaces; religious and
pilgrimage activity related to ancient, sacred, and emerging tourist desti-
nations; and new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems, and quasi-religious
activities. Distributed in the US by Oxford University Press.
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BL790 2006-025008 978-1-4051-2054-8
AA ccoommppaanniioonn ttoo GGrreeeekk rreelliiggiioonn
Title main entry. Ed. by Daniel Ogden. (Blackwell companions to the
ancient world. Ancient history)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 497 p. $149.95
Historians, religious scholars, and archaeologists discuss various aspects
of Greek religion during the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods,
about 776-30 BC. They do not consider myth extensively, another volume
in the series being devoted to that, but do encounter it often while exam-
ining other topics. Among those topics are the gods and the dead; local
religious systems; mysteries and magic; and intersections of Greek
religion with literature, philosophy, and art.
BL795 2006-049930 978-90-04-15242-7
PPhhrryyggiiaann rroocckk ccuutt sshhrriinneess;; ssttrruuccttuurree,, ffuunnccttiioonn,, aanndd ccuulltt
pprraaccttiiccee
Berndt-Ersöz, Susanne. (Culture and history of the ancient Near East;
v.25)
BRILL, ©2006 410 p. $236.00
Berndt-Ersöz explores Phrygian cult and cult practices through a detailed
analysis of rock-cut monuments in their preserved context in central
Anatolia, and in combination with other Phrygian religious material
groups. She draws on already published and recorded material, partly at
least to indicate where and how further surveys and excavations should
be undertaken to clarify issues she raises. An underlying question is the
role of the Phrygians in the formative stage of the Iron Age and subse-
quent centuries. The study is updated from her 2003 Ph.D. dissertation
in classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of
Stockholm.
BL803 2006-025010 978-1-4051-2943-5
AA ccoommppaanniioonn ttoo RRoommaann rreelliiggiioonn

Title main entry. Ed. by Jörg Rüpke. (Blackwell companions to the
ancient world)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 542 p. $174.95
These 31 articles focus on how humans behaved within the political, cul-
tural, social and economic contexts of Roman religion, with contributors
covering the importance of what the Romans believed, early religions
and their urban cohorts, religion and the integration of policy and the
empire, and a host of media (the epic tradition, coins, reliefs, inscrip-
tions, home religion), symbols and practices (sites, games, processionals,
prayers, hymns, music, dance, sacrifice), and related religious identities
(Roman diaspora Judaism, religious individualism and intellectual
choices, institutional religious options such as Mithrasism and
“Romanness”). The collection closes with observations from the outside,
including exported Roman religion, the Roman East and Roman religion
under the purview of Tertullian.
BL910 978-1-85285-533-8
TThhee DDrruuiiddss
Hutton, Ronald.
Hambledon & London Press, ©2007 240 p. $29.95
In contrast to the usual academic approach treating Druids only in the
context of ancient history, Hutton (history, U. of Bristol, England) ana-
lyzes how this mysterious pagan group associated with Stonehenge was
viewed in eras from the Roman to the present. In an account intended
to be accessible to nonspecialists, he traces the motives behind several
countries’ appropriation of Druid ancestry. The only thing remotely
“racy” about the book, as the publisher promotes it, is a movie still from
The Viking Queen. Distributed in North America by Palgrave Macmillan.
BL1105 2006-044419 978-0-8160-5458-9
EEnnccyyccllooppeeddiiaa ooff HHiinndduuiissmm
Jones, Constance A. and James D. Ryan. (Encyclopedia of world reli-

gions)
Facts On File, Inc., ©2007 552 p. $75.00
This 600-entry reference covers the major tenets, practices and people of
the Hindu religion, back into prehistory. Along with such fundamental
elements as meditation, gods and goddesses, worship, funeral rites and
texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, this covers more complex theological
issues such as the development of Jainism and Sikhism and the social
and political impact of the caste system. Jones and Ryan, both of the
California Institute of Integral Studies, include everything from biogra-
phies of theologians and Hindu poets to descriptions of rituals and fes-
tivals, historical events, and relations between Hinduism and other faiths.
This is accessible to the curious amongst high school students, under-
graduate and graduate students, and general readers.
BL1105 978-0-7007-1267-0
EEnnccyyccllooppeeddiiaa ooff HHiinndduuiissmm
Title main entry. Ed. by Denise Cush et al.
Routledge, ©2008 1086 p. $225.00
Composed of some 900 entries ranging in length ranging from 150 to
5000 words, this encyclopedia is intended to provide an undergraduate
audience with an understanding of the depth of scholarship that encom-
passes recent debates and discoveries alongside standard material on
popular and vernacular dimensions of Hindu religious practice in India
and around the world. The editors (all of Bath Spa U., UK) provide a
thematic list of entries at the beginning of the volume, the headings of
which may give the reader a sense of the encyclopedia’s scope and con-
tents: cast and lifestyles, central concepts, contemporary media, cos-
mology, deities, diaspora, ethics and contemporary issues, inter-faith and
inter-religious dialogue, major movements and figures, modern and con-
temporary period, myth and mythical characters, philosophy and the-
ology, politics and nationalism, sacred geography, sacred texts and

languages, scholars and writers, traditional arts and sciences, women
and gender, and worship and practice.
BL1214 2006-017086 978-0-7391-2510-6
BBhhaakkttii aanndd pphhiilloossoopphhyy ((rreepprriinntt,, 22000066))
Singh, R. Raj.
Lexington Books, ©2007 113 p. $24.95 (pa)
Singh (philosophy, Brock U.) locates bhakti within a variety of faith and
thought systems of India, including Vedanta and Buddhism, with special
emphasis on such texts as the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita,
the Bhakti Sutras and the Buddhist Sutras, focusing on the relation of
bhakti as expressed in them with secular philosophy. He covers bhakti as
a perennial concept within faith and secular philosophy, its role in early
Buddhist thought, its relation to philosophy in the Bhagavadgita, its
relation to love in the Narada Bhakti Sutra and in the philosophies of art.
This is a paperback reprint of the original 2006 edition.
BL1243 978-90-04-15843-6
TTeemmppllee ccoonnsseeccrraattiioonn rriittuuaallss iinn aanncciieenntt IInnddiiaa
Slaczka, Anna A. (Brill’s indological library; v.26)
BRILL, ©2007 412 p. $134.00
Revising her 2006 doctoral dissertation for Leiden University, the
Netherlands, Slaczka examines three important construction ritual of the
Hindu tradition: laying the first stones, placing the consecrated deposit,
and placing the crowning bricks. She draws heavily on the rich accounts
in many Sanskrit texts on architecture and religion that date from the
seventh to the sixteenth centuries. Chief among them is the Kasyapasilpa,
a South Indian treatise on art and architecture and ritual written about
the 11th-12th centuries.
BL2080 978-0-295-98718-7
FFoorr ggooddss,, gghhoossttss aanndd aanncceessttoorrss;; tthhee CChhiinneessee ttrraaddiittiioonn ooff
ppaappeerr ooffffeerriinnggss

Scott, Janet Lee.
U. of Washington Press, ©2007 311 p. $30.00
Scott (East Asian research, Harvard U.) has been conducting field
research on the venerable tradition of ritual paper offerings for many
years in Hong Kong. Noting that the 1997 transition to mainland control
has actually strengthened appreciation of traditional Chinese culture, she
examines offerings’ mediating role in worship and identity, their diverse
forms, construction, and the relationship between shopkeeper and cus-
tomer. The book includes color photographs and a glossary of Chinese
characters.
BM488 2006-049242 978-90-04-14030-1
LLee RRoouulleeaauu ddee ccuuiivvrree ddee llaa ggrroottttee 33 ddee QQuummrraann ((33QQ1155));;
eexxppeerrttiissee——rreessttaauurraattiioonn——eeppiiggrraapphhiiee;; 22vv
Brizemeure, Daniel et al. Ed. by Jean-Michel Poffet et al. (Studies on the
Texts of the Desert of Judah; 55)
BRILL, ©2006 652 p. $254.00
The Copper Scroll found in two pieces in the caves at Qumran in 1952
was chopped into 23 pieces shortly afterwards to facilitate its reading. In
addition to this disgrace, the copper began to degrade. The conservation
of the pieces, their documentation, and transformation into facsimile is
documented in these two volumes. Publication in a lavish full-scale
format (11.25x14.75″ ) allows for color reproductions of each piece after
conservation, as well as a wealth of other images, including full-scale
plates of X-rays taken before and drawings made after their conservation.
Detailed scholarly material is included related to the Scroll, its study, con-
tents, and conservation. A translation of the Scroll into French and
English, with the original Hebrew is also included. Other than the trans-
lation of the Scroll text and an English version of the introduction, the
volumes are in French.
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BM729 2006-038220 978-0-8047-5321-0
TThhee sshhaappee ooff rreevveellaattiioonn,, aaeesstthheettiiccss aanndd mmooddeerrnn JJeewwiisshh
tthhoouugghhtt
Braiterman, Zachary. (Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture)
Stanford U. Press, ©2007 300 p. $55.00
Braiterman (religion, Syracuse U.) explores the figure of revelation as an
overlap between aesthetics-art and religion, by setting the Jewish phi-
losophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig against its immediate
visual environment in early German modernism, especially German
expressionism, as seen in Kandinsky, Klee, and Franz Marc. The rela-
tionship, he explains, is not based on common theological or aesthetic
contents, but on intersecting discourses of form-creation, sheer presence,
lyric pathos, rhythmic repetition, open spatial dynamism, and erotic
pulse. Some of the material has been published separately.
BP163 2006-031060 0-275-98732-9
VVooiicceess ooff IIssllaamm;; 55vv
Title main entry. Ed. by Vincent J. Cornell. (Praeger perspectives)
Praeger, ©2007 1249 p. $450.00
Insisting that a monolithic view of Islam is both wrong and dangerous
and also believing that the full lived experience of being Muslim can only
adequately be described by those who can bear witness to their own tra-
ditions from within, Cornell (Middle East and Islamic studies, Emory U.,
US), Henry-Blakemore (co-founder and trustee, Islamic Texts Society of
Cambridge, UK), and Safi (Islamic studies, U. of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, US) present a five-volume work that is intended to provide non-
Muslim general audiences at the senior high school and university under-
graduate levels with as wide a depiction of Islamic doctrines, practices,
and worldviews as possible. Some 50 articles by scholars that are also
practicing Muslims representing a diverse range of places, traditions, cul-
tures, and beliefs are presented in volumes that individually address the

grand traditions and beliefs of the religion; the spiritual experience of
Islam; everyday experiences of family, home, and society; Islamic cul-
tures’ art, aesthetics, and science; and Muslim progressives, modernists,
and other reformers.
BQ128 978-0-415-31414-5
EEnnccyyccllooppeeddiiaa ooff BBuuddddhhiissmm
Title main entry. Ed. by Damien Keown and Charles S. Prebish.
Routledge, ©2007 923 p. $225.00
Buddhism is such a broad field that before now, no single-volume ref-
erence aimed for comprehensiveness. This thoughtfully prepared work
fills that gap, addressing in scholarly, yet accessible fashion, Buddhism’s
history, traditions and schools, significant people, canons and text, con-
cepts and ideas, rituals and customs, sacred places, and diaspora. Of the
340 alphabetically arranged, signed entries, some, on major topics, run
as long as 5,000 words; a smaller portion are about 500 words, and most
are somewhere in between. Entries are cross-referenced and an initial list
of entries by major topic will help readers navigate. Editors Keown
(Goldsmiths College, U. of London) and Prebish (Pennsylvania State U.)
have coordinated the efforts and contributions of 23 scholars in various
fields of Buddhist studies. No entry-specific references are supplied, but
the general bibliography is arranged topically. A chronology, a pronun-
ciation guide, and a guide to Buddhist scriptures are provided.
BR115 978-2-503-52295-1
CCrreeaattiioonnss;; mmeeddiieevvaall rriittuuaallss,, tthhee aarrttss,, aanndd tthhee ccoonncceepptt ooff
ccrreeaattiioonn
Title main entry. Ed. by Sven Rune Havsteen et al. (Ritus et artes; v.2)
Brepols Publishers, ©2007 269 p. $81.00
To trace part of the transformation of the concept of creation from bib-
lical to modern times, scholars of music, literature, the visual arts, and
theology focus on medieval liturgical practice, artistic production in the

modern era, and the interconnections between the two. Their topics
include creation and recreation in Irish bardic poetry, the new manner
of composing in the years around 1800, and vignettes of Kabbalistic and
deconstructive thought. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Company.
BS191 2004-115579 0-8146-9050-5
IIlllluummiinnaattiinngg tthhee wwoorrdd;; tthhee mmaakkiinngg ooff tthhee SSaaiinntt JJoohhnn’’ss
BBiibbllee
Calderhead, Christopher.
The Liturgical Press, ©2005 216 p. $39.95
Calderhead, a contributor & scholar, provides a detailed description of
the background, decision-making, and production of the St. John’s Bible—
a monumental project using ancient calligraphic techniques to create a
complete contemporary Bible rendered into English from the New Revised
Standard Version. It’s almost surely the greatest mss. since Gutenberg.
Fine photos show artists and monks at work, scribing with egg yoke,
gold, silver & pigments as well as such details as sharpening a quill. The
calligraphy was done on vellum in a lively edged-pen hand faintly related
to italic. A reduced facsimile 9.75x15″ is being prepared as the original
parts are finished; two volumes are now available at under $70 each
(their titles begin with The Saint John’s Bible St. John’s in Collegeville,
Minnesota is a modern university founded by Benedictine monks and is
the home also of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library.
BS191 2004025099 0-8146-9051-3
TThhee SSaaiinntt JJoohhnn’’ss BBiibbllee;; vv 22:: GGoossppeellss aanndd AAccttss
Bible. English. New Revised Standard. Handwritten and illuminated by
Donald Jackson. (series: title)
The Liturgical Press, ©2005 158 p. $64.95
This is one of seven volumes representing a monumental project using
ancient calligraphic techniques to create a complete contemporary Bible

rendered into English from the New Revised Standard Version. Almost
surely the greatest mss. since Gutenberg. Artists scribed with egg yoke,
gold, silver & pigments. The calligraphy was done on vellum in a lively
edged-pen hand faintly related to italic. This reduced facsimile, 9.75x15″
is being prepared as the original parts are finished; two volumes are now
available. Printed on paper that hints at vellum, the work is a fine
example of bookmaking—a craft that is too rarely manifest today. Aside
from its obvious interest for religious collections, the work will embellish
any graphic arts collection. St. John’s in Collegeville, Minnesota is a
modern university, founded by Benedictine monks, and is the home also
of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library.
BS191 2004025099 978-0-8146-9052-9
TThhee SSaaiinntt JJoohhnn’’ss BBiibbllee;; vv 11:: PPeennttaatteeuucchh
Bible. English. New Revised Standard. Handwritten and illuminated by
Donald Jackson. (series: title)
The Liturgical Press, ©2006 158 p. $69.95
This is one of seven volumes representing a monumental project using
ancient calligraphic techniques to create a complete contemporary Bible
rendered into English from the New Revised Standard Version. Almost
surely the greatest mss. since Gutenberg. Artists scribed with egg yoke,
gold, silver & pigments. The calligraphy was done on vellum in a lively
edged-pen hand faintly related to italic. This reduced facsimile, 9.75x15″
is being prepared as the original parts are finished; two volumes are now
available. Printed on paper that hints at vellum, the work is a fine
example of bookmaking—a craft that is too rarely manifest today. Aside
from its obvious interest for religious collections, the work will embellish
any graphic arts collection. St. John’s in Collegeville, Minnesota is a
modern university, founded by Benedictine monks, and is the home also
of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library.
BS440 2006-034946 978-1-58297-460-6

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aalllluussiioonnss iinn aarrtt,, lliitteerraattuurree,, aanndd lliiffee
Lang, J. Stephen.
Writer’s Digest Books, ©2007 426 p. $19.99
Having written about biblical themes in some of his many previous
books, Florida-based author Lang here explains the people, places, events,
and phrases of the Bible that find their way into popular culture. He
presents them alphabetically within sections of people, places, and
things; and words and phrases. There is no index or cross-referencing.
BS445 2006-020112 978-0-934686-03-7
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Title main entry. Ed. by Michelle P. Brown.
Smithsonian Books, ©2006 360 p. $40.00 (pa)
This oversized catalog (10.5x9.5″) was published to accompany an exhi-
bition held at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
in Washington DC in collaboration with the Bodleian Library, U. of
Oxford, the UK. It presents essays by scholars of medieval manuscripts
on the making of early bibles, their transformation as they traveled from
the east to west, the bible as a type of icon, and the history of early
Christianity in the eastern Mediterranean. These themes are continued in
the presentation of the plates and entries of the exhibition itself.
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BS538 2005-034703 978-1-4051-0136-3
TThhee BBllaacckkwweellll ccoommppaanniioonn ttoo tthhee BBiibbllee aanndd ccuullttuurree
Title main entry. Ed. by John F. A. Sawyer. (Blackwell companions to
religion)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2006 555 p. $149.95
Offering readers a one-volume reference source about 21st- century

approaches to the Bible, this volume explores the ways the Bible has
affected all the major social contexts where it has been influential:
ancient, medieval and modern. The 30 articles are written by distin-
guished specialists and are organized into sections on revealing the past,
the nomadic text, the Bible and the senses, and reading in practice. The
articles emphasize the multi- faceted nature of the Bible and its impact
on the world and help to bridge the gap between specialist biblical
studies and other disciplines, such as literature, art, music, history, the-
ology, politics and psychology.
BX290 2006-287476 978-0-521-81113-2
EEaasstteerrnn CChhrriissttiiaanniittyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Michael Angold. (The Cambridge history of
Christianity; v.5)
Cambridge U. Pr., ©2006 722 p. $180.00
The 24 chapters of this work present thoughtful discussion of the history,
culture, and theology of the Byzantine, Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian,
Coptic, and Syrian Christian churches, among others. Rather than fol-
lowing a strictly chronological framework, the articles are thematic, with
treatment of such topics as art, liturgy, contact with the West, specific the-
ological movements, and issues associated with being a minority religion.
The final three articles are on contemporary issues, addressing the
impact on Russian Orthodox religion of emigration, communism’s
impact, and modern spirituality in the Orthodox church. With articles by
noted scholars on issues, trends, and the history of the various lines of
Eastern Christianity from earliest times through the present, this will be
a useful reference to a wide range of readers, from the interested public
and students to the scholar. Angold is emeritus, Byzantine history, U. of
Edinburgh, Scotland.
BX880 2006-019316 978-1-4051-1224-6
TThhee BBllaacckkwweellll ccoommppaanniioonn ttoo CCaatthhoolliicciissmm

Title main entry. Ed. by James J. Buckley et al. (Blackwell companions
to religion)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 523 p. $149.95
Why do some theologians relate Romantic understanding of religion to
subjectivity or even cultural relativism? How was the Black Death
perhaps offset by technological innovations that led to considerations of
faith? Do not expect pat answers in this collection of 33 articles; each con-
tains its own surprises and alternate insights. Contributors cover history,
cultures, doctrines and practices in such topics as the worlds of the Old
and New Testaments, the early Church, the middle ages, the Reformation,
modernity and post-modernity, cultures from the Holy Land to India,
Africa, Europe, Great Britain and Ireland, Latin America, North America,
Asia and Oceania, the practice of Catholic theology and the development
of doctrine, God, creation and anthropology, Jesus Christ, Mary, the
concept of “church,” the liturgy and sacraments, moral theology, the end
times, spirituality, institutions, the Holy See, ecumenism, inter-religious
dialog, art and literature, science and technology, and justice and peace.
BX1973 978-0-85989-566-8
TThhee aarrtt ooff tthhee bbooookk;; iittss ppllaaccee iinn mmeeddiieevvaall wwoorrsshhiipp
((rreepprriinntt,, 11999988))
Title main entry. Ed. by Margaret M. Manion and Barnard J. Muir.
University of Exeter Press, ©2006 337 p. $110.00
Scholars based in Melbourne whose research focuses on medieval books
designed for use in public or private Christian worship, examine specific
French, Italian, and Netherlandish books from the 14th to the early 16th
centuries. Most of the contributors are art historians, so illustrations and
decoration receive considerable attention. Eight color plates are included,
along with many black-and-white reproductions. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co.
BX2333 2006-016886 978-1-57003-630-9

SSaaiinnttss aanndd tthheeiirr ccuullttss iinn tthhee AAttllaannttiicc wwoorrlldd
Title main entry. Ed. by Margaret Cormack. (The Carolina lowcountry
and the Atlantic world)
U. of South Carolina Press, ©2007 280 p. $49.95
Historians and scholars of religion from the US and Europe explore
changing images of specific saints and the societies that created those
images to suit varying psychic and social needs; and the nature of the
relationship between holy persons, holy objects, and holy places. Among
their topics are St. Benedict the Moor from Sicily to the New World, the
search for an American Marian cult in New Orleans, and the influence
of pilgrimage on artistic traditions in Medieval Ireland.
BX2640 978-2-503-51528-1
MMaannuussccrriippttss aanndd mmoonnaassttiicc ccuullttuurree;; rreeffoorrmm aanndd rreenneewwaall iinn
ttwweellfftthh cceennttuurryy GGeerrmmaannyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Alison I. Beach. (Medieval church studies; 13)
Brepols Publishers, ©2007 347 p. $81.00
Derived from papers delivered during a 2002 conference held at the
monastery of Admont in Steiermark, Austria, this volume presents ten
scholarly papers on manuscripts, monks, nuns, and theology during a
period of great change and rich philosophical thought. Among the paper
topics are an overview by senior scholar Rodney Thomson (emeritus,
history and classics, U. of Tasmania), the function of the illustrations in
Admont manuscripts, scholasticism at Admont, and the reception of
Bernard of Clairvaux’s writings on the Song of Songs in 12th-century
Austria. Three essays are devoted to aspects of women’s art and writing
at Admont. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
BX4656 2007-003842 978-0-8109-9402-7
PPaattrroonn ssaaiinnttss;; aa ffeeaasstt ooff hhoollyy ccaarrddss
Calamari, Barbara and Sandra Di Pasqua.
Harry N. Abrams, ©2007 159 p. $24.95

This collection of holy cards, which Roman Catholics use to inspire
prayer (or even just to collect and trade) includes beauties from the
Victorian age along with more modern renditions. Here we find patron
saints for both brides and abandoned people, grandfathers, amputees,
Algerians and Italians, those with AIDS and those who care for them, the
blind, the lame, and those with cows. The photography is superb and the
captions are sincere, giving Catholics and non-Catholics alike a com-
fortable idea that perhaps they will not face strife, skating or working as
an obstetrician alone.
BX4700 2007-013001 978-0-87580-375-3
IImmppeerriiaall ssaaiinntt;; tthhee ccuulltt ooff SStt CCaatthheerriinnee aanndd tthhee ddaawwnn ooff
ffeemmaallee rruullee iinn RRuussssiiaa
Marker, Gary.
Northern Illinois U. Press, ©2007 307 p. $42.00
Drawing on the scholarship of gender and politics in late medieval/ early
modern Europe and archival evidence, Marker (history, State U. of New
York at Stony Brook) argues that the stage was set for Catherine I
becoming Russia’s first officially crowned female ruler by veneration of
the “masculine” qualities of St. Catherine. In making this overlooked con-
nection, he discusses why this particular saint became linked to the legit-
imacy of female rule in Russia, and profiles previous female rulers and
Catherine II (the Great). Illustrations include Orthodox iconic images of
St. Catherine and scenes from the life of Catherine I.
BX4700 2006-049192 978-90-04-15503-9
PPaarraabblleess;; BBeerrnnaarrdd ooff CCllaaiirrvvaauuxx’’ss mmaappppiinngg ooff ssppiirriittuuaall
ttooppooggrraapphhyy
Brunn, Mette B. (Brill’s studies in intellectual history; v.148)
BRILL, ©2007 344 p. $129.00
Though he traveled much, Cistercian monk Bernard (1090-1153) never
visited the Holy Land, so he was free to envision Jerusalem as he thought

fit. Bruun (Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval
Rituals, U. of Copenhagen) explains how his topography of the city was
composed of a range of theologico-literary topoi and included such fea-
tures as the Garden of Eden, Babylon, and the wilderness.
Art Book News Annual 2008 –8–
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The history section begins with CIVILIZATION sorted
by period, then proceeds to auxiliary fields (e.g.
ARCHIVES, NUMISMATICS, BIOGRAPHY), then to
GENERAL HISTORY, and to individual countries.
ARCHAEOLOGY is interspersed.
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CB245 2006-036398 978-0-393-06116-1
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tthhee aarrttss
James, Clive.
W.W. Norton, ©2007 876 p. $35.00
On one hand, this work by British cultural and literary critic James can
be seen as a simply an encyclopedic survey of figures important to the
philosophy, history, politics, and arts of the 20th century (together with
a small handful of non-20th century figures, such as the Roman historian
Tacitus). It offers 116 separate profiles in which James offers his thoughts
on such disparate individuals as Louis Armstrong, Jorge Luis Borges,
Albert Camus, Dick Cavett, Charlie Chaplin, Miles Davis, Alfred Einsteni,
W. C. Fields, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Edward Gibbon, Terry
Gilliam, Adolf Hitler, Norman Mailer, Thomas Mann, Mao Zedong,
Octavio Paz, Beatrix Potter, Rainier Maria Rilke, Edward Said, Jean-Paul
Sartre, Margaret Thatcher, Leon Trotsky, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Despite this seeming eclecticism, James has a unitary purpose, which is
to defend the values of reason and liberal democracy against “ideolo-

gists” and authoritarianism.
CB353 2007-001362 978-0-7864-2922-6
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ppooppuullaarr ccuullttuurree
Title main entry. Ed. by David W. Marshall.
McFarland & Co., ©2007 205 p. $35.00 (pa)
Scholars of literature, history, media, archaeology, and other fields survey
how modern popular culture devours its medieval heritage. Among their
examples are the Vikings in hard rock and heavy metal, idealized images
of Wales in the fiction of Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters, the appropriation of
King Arthur and the cultural value of tourist sites, The Blackadder, and
autopoietic systems and secondary worlds in Dungeons & Dragons.
CB361 2005-037430 0-7546-4102-3
CCuurriioossiittyy aanndd wwoonnddeerr ffrroomm tthhee RReennaaiissssaannccee ttoo tthhee
EEnnlliigghhtteennmmeenntt
Title main entry. Ed. by R.J.W. Evans and Alexander Marr.
Ashgate Publishing Co., ©2006 265 p. $99.95
European and American scholars of history and literature explore how
the two emotions were expressed during the early modern period. Their
topics include the metaphorical collecting of curiosities in France and
Germany, the jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in 17th-
century English literature, and wonder-working and the culture of
automata.
CB361 2007-272591 978-0-8020-9415-5
TThhee RReennaaiissssaannccee iinn hhiissttoorriiccaall tthhoouugghhtt;; ffiivvee cceennttuurriieess ooff
iinntteerrpprreettaattiioonn ((rreepprriinntt,, 11994488))
Ferguson, Wallace K. (Renaissance Society of America reprint texts; 16)
U. of Toronto Press, ©2006 429 p. $27.50 (pa)
The late Canadian historian Ferguson (b. 1902) explores the historical
interpretation of The Renaissance from the early humanist tradition in

Italy to the debates of the early 20th century between Medievalists and
Modernists each claiming the period as part of their legitimate turf. First
published in 1948 by Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
CB430 2006-001715 978-1-4051-3190-2
BBeeaauuttiiffuull tthhiinnggss iinn ppooppuullaarr ccuullttuurree
Title main entry. Ed. by Alan McKee.
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 231 p. $59.95
Scholars and other pop culture analysts explore such consumer icons as
superheroes in comics, shoes, crime fiction, “post-gay” websites, and a
villain in the Xena: Warrior Princess TV show that they highly rate. The
most unusual of the 13 essays treats why a 1943 propaganda film about
a massacred village can be considered beautiful. McKee (creative indus-
tries, Queensland U. of Technology) situates these attractions in the
context of critical debates over high vs. mass culture aesthetics. The few
b&w photos include self-styled pop princess Kylie Minogue, and the
beautifully styled Ducati 916 motorbike.
CB430 2007-922932 978-1-4129-1013-2
CCoonnssuummeerr ccuullttuurree aanndd ppoossttmmooddeerrnniissmm,, 22dd eedd
Featherstone, Mike. (Theory, culture & society)
Sage Publications, ©2007 203 p. $125.00
Featherstone (Nottingham Trent U., UK) subjects the concepts of con-
sumer culture and postmodernism to critical analysis. He explores defi-
nitions and articulations of consumer culture and considers how much
it may represent the arrival of a postmodern world. He also reviews con-
temporary social theories of consumption and postmodernism and
assesses them against the reality of today’s consumer culture.
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CC70 2006-034639 978-1-4051-1887-3
DDiiccttiioonnaarryy ooff aarrttiiffaaccttss
Kipfer, Barbara Ann.

Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 345 p. $124.95
Concise b&w drawings and some photos are included throughout this
superb reference, which contains over 2000 definitions of the terms used
to name artifacts in the field of archaeology. Terms were selected that
concern the analysis, examination, and identification of artifacts, their
care, handling, preservation, decoration, description, production, tech-
nology, and specific types. Architectural terminology and specific sites
and objects are not included. Definitions are also provided for major time
periods. Kipfer is an archaeologist and lexicographer with two other
archaeology compendia to her name (Encyclopedic dictionary of archae-
ology and The archaeologist’s fieldwork companion).
CC72 2006-035673 978-1-59874-224-4
AArrcchhaaeeoollooggyy aanndd wwoommeenn;; aanncciieenntt aanndd mmooddeerrnn iissssuueess
Title main entry. Ed. by Sue Hamilton et al. (Publications of the
Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
Left Coast Press, ©2007 415 p. $34.95 (pa)
The three editors (women from the Institute of Archaeology, University
College London) present 17 essays dealing with issues of modern female
archaeologists as well as archaeological discourse on women in antiquity.
Topics include whether gender archaeology and archaeology of women
should both be studied, the women excavators of El-Wad Cave in
Palestine, women and the emergence of urban society in Mesopotamia,
and what asexual figurines in the Neolithic period in the Aegean repre-
sented in comparison to those with a distinguishable gender.
CC72 2005-037148 978-1-55786-657-8
AArrcchhaaeeoollooggiiccaall sseemmiioottiiccss
Preucel, Robert W. (Social archaeology)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2006 332 p. $74.95
Anthropology is a semiotic enterprise, declares Preucel (anthropology, U.
of Pennsylvania), but then so is every other academic discipline that

must attend to the linkages between theories, data, and social practices
in the pursuit of meaning. Exploring the interpretive aspects of the pro-
fession, he looks at contributions by Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles
Sanders Peirce, post-structuralism and post-processual archaeology,
Brook Farm and the architecture of Utopia, and other topics.
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CC72 2007-013539 978-0-7591-1114-1
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aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Sarah Milledge Nelson. (Gender and archae-
ology series)
AltaMira Press, ©2007 269 p. $70.00
This collection of articles describes how, according to the physical evi-
dence of the past, the concept of gender has worked alongside race, class,
the formation of the self, and the development of individuals and
therefore societies. Contributors cover the influence perceptions of gender
have on the development of the person, the role of sexuality in arche-
ology, the changing definition of “masculinity” and its influence in arche-
ology, the evidence for nonbinary genders in Native North American
societies, gender and human evolution, archeological methods and per-
spectives that illuminate gender dynamics in hunter-gatherer societies
and in early farming societies, and the search for the truth about how
women have really fared within pastoralism.
CC72 2007-000567 978-0-7591-1081-6
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aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Sarah Milledge Nelson. (Gender and archae-
ology series)
AltaMira Press, ©2007 311 p. $70.00
In a text derived from Part I of the Handbook of Gender in Archeology

(2006) which she edited, Nelson (archeology, U. of Denver) introduces
nine feminist perspectives on archeology. Interpreting gender in the past
(some cultures recognized more than two) means focusing on interac-
tions and change as well as women. US and UK female contributors’ the-
oretical critiques, case studies, and suggestions for future research treat
central themes in gender roles and identities: e.g., historical texts,
household material culture, gendering of landscapes, and mortuary
analysis (i.e., inferring a person’s status from grave contents). Responses
to male biases in the field include reinterpreting the meaning of objects
and women’s roles in ethnographic contexts.
CC75 2006-017435 978-0-8165-2517-1
AArrcchhaaeeoollooggiiccaall aanntthhrrooppoollooggyy;; ppeerrssppeeccttiivveess oonn mmeetthhoodd aanndd
tthheeoorryy
Title main entry. Ed. by James M. Skibo et al.
U. of Arizona Press, ©2007 309 p. $55.00
The 11 essays presented here by Skibo (anthropology, Illinois State U.),
Graves (anthropology, U. of New Mexico), and Stark (anthropology, U. of
Hawai’i at M noa) build upon the foundations of William Longacre’s New
Anthropology, which blended the scientific method and anthropology.
The contributions are concerned with extending and refining Longacre’s
ideas and focus on six major themes: the intellectual history of archae-
ology and anthropology, the archaeological method, analogical inference,
ethnoarchaeology, cultural evolution, and the reconstruction of ancient
society.
CC76 2005-031879 978-1-4051-1885-9
TThhee aarrcchhaaeeoollooggiisstt’’ss ffiieellddwwoorrkk ccoommppaanniioonn
Kipfer, Barbara Ann.
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 467 p. $74.95
Kipfer, a lexicographer and author, provides a guide to information and
materials needed when doing archeological fieldwork, compiled in one

volume that can be carried while in the field. Aimed at students, ama-
teurs, and professionals, the book covers classification and typology;
sample forms and records; lists and checklists; mapping, drawing, and
photographing settings and artifacts; measurements and conversion,
including charts and using equipment; and planning and designing
projects. Resources are listed in the final chapter, including organizations
and journals, ethical guidelines, legislation, and government information.
Chapters cover topics in alphabetical order; no index is supplied.
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22000077
Title main entry.
Archaeological Inst.of America, ©2007 244 p. $19.95 (pa)
For students, volunteer fieldworkers, and archaeological tourists who
want to take part in field work, the annual guide lists 224 opportunities
from around the world, and ranging in investigation from the early 20th
century back to the earliest human prehistory. Besides information about
the project itself and how to apply, suggestions are also provided about
travel, resources, excavation guidelines, the Institutes’s Code of Ethics and
Professional Standards, and local and international archaeological soci-
eties in North America and Britain. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Company.
CC76 978-1-84217-233-9
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ccuullttuurraall aarrtteeffaaccttss;; pprroocceeeeddiinnggss
St Cross—All Souls Seminar Series and Workshop (1st: 2004: Oxford,
UK) Ed. by Eleanor Robson et al.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 134 p. $48.00 (pa)
As an informed stroll through any western museum will attest, arche-
ology has become inextricably bound with ethics and considerations of

cultural sovereignty. Drawn from a seminar series held from October to
December 2004, and motivated in part by the looting of cultural objects
in recent military conflicts, these nine essays reflect the long and strong
debate amongst archeologists, museums, and the legal antiquities trade.
Their contributors describe the case for an open public debate on cultural
artifacts, changes in collecting over the past 50 years, accessibility to the
public and to scholars, new legal and voluntary codes, views from the
antiquities and coin trades, the debate on cultural property, recent UK
regulations against illicit trade in cultural objects, and lessons on repa-
triation learned from the Glasgow experience. Distributed in the US by
The David Brown Book Co.
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iinntteerrpprreettaattiioonn iinn hhiissttoorriiccaall aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Steven N. Archer and Kevin M. Bartoy.
Springer, ©2006 235 p. $99.00
Probably a shower, of course, but anthropologists and related scientists
look at what else is necessary between digging up artifacts from his-
torical periods and presenting findings to a conference. They do not
champion some interpretive methodologies over others, but evaluate and
critique methods they use themselves or have seen others use, with a goal
of improving their internal consistency or their connection with larger
theoretical and methodological contexts. The 12 essays are from a 2004
conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Van de Noort, Robert and Aidan O’Sullivan.
Duckworth, ©2006 167 p. $22.00 (pa)
The relevance and practicality of wetland archaeology has come under
criticism from many voices in mainstream archaeology, say the authors,

both UK-based wetland archaeologists. In this book, they suggest an
agenda for redirecting the discipline in order to integrate it into broader
geographical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. They describe
important discoveries and figures, illustrate wetlands’ contributions in
the study of landscapes, and assess deficient theories including those
favoring “dryland” populations while overlooking the possibility of com-
munities that lived and worked in bogs and marshes. Finally, a dis-
cussion of politics and practice in wetlands archaeology portray the
challenges to establishing the discipline’s credibility and how its practi-
tioners may do so. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing.
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Gürsan-Salzmann, Ayse.
U. Penn/Mus. of Archaeo & Anth, ©2007 102 p. $29.95
In the early 1930s, the young German archaeologist Erich Schmidt led an
archaeological expedition to Persia (Iran) investigating the Bronze Age
site of Tepe Hissar, Persepolis, the Sasainan Palace of the 3rd-7th cen-
turies AD, and other sites on behalf of the U. of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology. Schmidt documented the trip by
taking thousands of photographs that illustrated both the expeditions
travels and their archaeological findings. In this work, Gürsman-
Salzmann (a research associate at the same museum) has assembled
approximately sixty of these photographs and supplemented them with
a narrative description of the expedition’s travels and importance. The
CD-ROM contains some dozens more images which do not appear in the
pages of the text.
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Chapman, John and Bisserka Gaydarska.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 233 p. $60.00 (pa)
Chapman, Gaydarska (both archeology, Durham U.) and their collabo-
rators integrate archeology, anthropology and material culture to study
the premise that many objects in the past were deliberately broken and
then re-used thereafter. The authors carefully define their novel ideas,
including the notion that fragmentation could be a desired outcome of
the user, to how fragments affect categorization and theories of
enchainment. They show what can be determined about whole objects
given the issue of fragmentation, then describe evidence in Hamangia
figurines, failures in re-fitting studies and biographical approaches to
artifacts. They also describe the directions of further research and
provide a comprehensive bibliography, very informative illustrations and
a set of color plates. Distributed in North America by The David Brown
Book Co.
CC97 2006-927791 978-0-387-35260-2
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aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy iinn AAuussttrraalliiaa
Smith, Claire and Heather Burke. (World Archaeological Congress cul-
tural heritage manual series)
Springer, ©2007 325 p. $149.00
The series that begins here will provide graduate and undergraduate stu-
dents and neophyte professionals with hands-on manuals for conducting
archaeological work in various parts of the world. Smith and Burke
(both: archaeology, Flinders U., Adelaide) do not find it necessary to
point out that the oldest layers are not on top down there, in case there
might have been any confusion. They do identify the legal and non-legal
essentials for working in Australia; the range and types of archaeological
employment available; and key sources of information about research

repositories, funding sources, and government and other specialist
agencies.
CC100 2006-103177 978-1-85109-186-1
MMiilleessttoonneess iinn aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy;; aa cchhrroonnoollooggiiccaall eennccyyccllooppeeddiiaa
Murray, Tim.
ABC-CLIO, ©2007 639 p. $95.00
In this extension of his five-volume Encyclopedia of Archeology (1999-2001,
ABC-CLIO), Murray (archeology, La Trobe U., Melbourne, Australia) intro-
duces a new approach to the upsurge in the historiography of archeology
and the field’s relationships with contemporary anthropology and
history. Representing “a middle ground between a straightforward work
of reference and an extended narrative of the history of archeology,” this
work seeks to communicate with both specialists and nonspecialists.
Interpretive entries surveying the field follow a chronology of archaeo-
logical milestones before 1800 and by century since then. Cross-refer-
enced entries include further reading, several maps and b&w
illustrations.
CC101 2007-000748 978-1-84553-268-0
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Title main entry. Ed. by Thomas E. Levy et al.
Equinox Publishing Limited, ©2007 495 p. $45.00 (pa)
Established in 1968, the American Center of Oriental Research has
worked together with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan to support
North American archaeologists working in Jordan. Together with the
American Schools of Oriental Research, it organized the Tenth
International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan,
which aimed to highlight the contributions of North American scholars
to the archaeology of Jordan. Editors Levy (anthropology and Judaic
studies, U. of California at San Diego, US), Daviau (Near Eastern archae-

ology, Wilfrid Laurier U., Canada), Younker (Old Testament and biblical
archaeology, Andrews University, US) and Shaer (Department of
Antiquities of Jordan) present 54 papers from the conference. Following
discussions placing Jordan within the wider theoretical developments of
the field and providing an overview of the history of North American
archaeological research in Jordan, seven papers discuss methodological
contributions, including the use of geographic information systems, high
precision radiocarbon dating, geoarchaeology, paleoecology, and conser-
vation and preservation initiatives. These are followed by nine deep-time
studies together with presentation of research on the prehistoric era, the
Bronze Age, early states and the Iron Age, the Hellenistic and Roman
periods, Nabatean civilization and its Jordanian heartland, the Byzantine
period, and Islamic civilization in Jordan. Distributed in North America
by The David Brown Book Co.
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MMuusseeuumm
Talalay, Lauren E. and Susan E. Alcock.
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, ©2006 103 p. $19.50 (pa)
The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology was founded by its namesake,
Frances W. Kelsey, at the University of Michigan in the 1920s. In this
book, all 20 of the museum’s expeditions to date are featured chronolog-
ically. B&w and color photographs are accompanied by text explaining
the sites and the significance and context of the team’s finds. Most of the
sites lie along the Mediterranean— Carthage, Cyrene and Apollonia in
Lybia, Paesteum in Italy, Pylos in Greece, and Kedesh and Sepphora in
Israel are among them. Inland sites include Seleucia-on-the-Tigris in Iraq,
Antioch of Pisidia in Turkey, the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount
Sinai, and the museum’s current dig at Vorotan, Armenia. This book is
distributed by David Brown Book Co. It measures 10x10″.

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Muckle, Robert J.
Broadview Press, ©2006 257 p. $39.95 (pa)
Muckle (archaeology, Capilano College, Vancouver, BC) offers a concise
and economical text for introductory archaeology courses as they are
taught in most colleges and universities in North America: with a focus
on methods. The development of the book has been guided by recent
principles of curriculum reform set form by the Society for American
Archaeology. In addition, it aims to situate archaeology in the contem-
porary world much more than similar textbooks, including contextual-
izing the field in academia, industry, global social movements, politics,
and popular culture; places greater emphasis on heritage resources man-
agement; and openly identifies disagreements, ambiguities, and gray
areas within the discipline.
CC165 978-0-86159-163-3
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tthhee CChhaannnneell BBrroonnzzee aaggee
Title main entry. Ed. by Stuart Needham et al. (Research publication;
no.163)
The British Museum Press, ©2006 116 p. $46.00 (pa)
In early 2001, a metal-detectorist found an Early Bronze Age gold cup at
Ringlemere Farm in east Kent. Soon archaeologists were scratching
around the area to see if they could find some evidence of how it came
to be there. To their surprise, they discovered a circular monument over
50 meters in diameter, originally a Late Neolithic henge, and then other
monuments nearby. Here archaeologists describe the excavations and
findings so far, the cup itself, and similar cups found throughout north-
western Europe. No index is provided. Distributed in North America by
The David Brown Book Co.

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Title main entry. Ed. by Malcolm Lillie and Stephen Ellis.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 298 p. $40.00 (pa)
This study, which follows the completion of the Humber Wetlands Project
based at the U. of Hull, contains 23 chapters from contributors from
around the world who outline the state of wetland cultural and palaeoen-
vironmental knowledge, methodological approaches, and theoretical
aspects in the field. Lillie (geography, U. of Hull) and Ellis (U. of Hull
Wetlands Archaeology Research Centre) bring together papers that
discuss the resource wetlands provide and ways archaeologists excavate
and interpret them, covering a variety of site types, methods, and geo-
graphical areas in Russia, Sweden, England, and Indonesia. The final
section considers wetland landscapes as organic environments important
to human-landscape interactions. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Co.
CC175 2006-101549 978-0-7591-1060-1
AArrcchhaaeeoollooggyy aass aa ttooooll ooff cciivviicc eennggaaggeemmeenntt
Title main entry. Ed. by Barbara J. Little and Paul A. Shackel.
AltaMira Press, ©2007 286 p. $29.95 (pa)
Archaeologists from the US and Canada encourage their colleagues to
think about effective ways to participate in movements to build com-
munity and create social capital and active citizen engagement in com-
munity and civic life. Their topics include reasserting native narratives
from a Powhatan place of power, archeology and community after the
Loma Prieta earthquake in California, and race on the Illinois frontier.
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Holtorf, Cornelius.
Left Coast Press, ©2007 183 p. $24.95 (pa)
Holtorf (archaeology, U. of Lund) is objective in his examinations of how
the trendiness of archaeology gets in its own way in the media. He
examines television shows from Germany, Sweden and Great Britain
(with a sideswipe at the newspapers), common perceptions such as
“archaeologists dig up things” and the pleasure amateurs take in the dis-
cipline, the role of the archaeologist in the mass media (adventurer,
detective, maker of profiound revelations, and caregiver of ancient sites
and finds, the archaeologist’s clothes, strategies of engagement with the
public (education, public relations and democratic), and the benefits of
reconsidering public-view archaeology.
AARRCCHHIIVVEESS
CD981 2007-007790 1-931666-25-3
PPllaannnniinngg nneeww aanndd rreemmooddeelleedd aarrcchhiivvaall ffaacciilliittiieess
Wilsted, Thomas P.
Society of American Archivists, ©2007 193 p. $49.00 (pa)
Wilsted (U. of Connecticut) has been involved in planning archival facil-
ities, and has taught and consulted in the field. After a brief history of
archives, he discusses the building site, structure, the building program
and process, creating the optimum environment, renovating a building
for archival use, purchasing equipment, moving in, and managing on a
daily basis.
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JJoohhnn HH KKrroollll
Title main entry. Ed. by Peter G. van Alfen.

American Numismatic Society, ©2006 273 p. $125.00
Friends, students, and colleagues mark the retirement of classicist Kroll
from the University of Texas-Austin with 12 essays, two in French, on
coins and their use in commerce in ancient Greece. The topics include
small change and the beginning of coinage at Abdera, Athens and
bronze coinage, the pseudo-Rhodian drachms of Mylasa revisited, and
cooperative coinage. Distributed in North America by The David Brown
Book Co.
CJ545 2006-031200 978-1-891771-41-5
AAlleexxaannddeerr’’ss ccooiinnss aanndd AAlleexxaannddeerr’’ss iimmaaggee
Arnold-Biucchi, Carmen.
Harvard Univ. Art Museums, ©2006 834 p. $20.00 (pa)
The book originated as a companion to an exhibition at the Museum and
an associated undergraduate course, but remains a useful catalogue to
the Museum’s collection of coins of Philip II, Alexander the Great, their
antecedents in Macedonia, and their successors in the Hellenistic world.
Arnold-Biucchi, curator of the Museum’s numismatic collection, also pro-
vides an introduction to the role of numismatics in reconstructing
ancient Greek history and culture. There is no index.
CJ814 978-0-7141-1813-0
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GGoorrddiieenn IIIIII ((223388 224444 aapprrééss JJ CC )) PPaarrtt 11:: PPrroovviinnccee dd’’AAssiiee
Butcher, Marguerite Spoerri.
The British Museum Press, ©2006 395 p. $240.00
Several thousand bronze coins are documented from the Roman province
of Asia in AD 238-244. Most were minted in the name of the emperor
Gordian II (238-244) and his wife Tranquillina, but some for Gordian I
and II, Pupienus, and Balbinus. They were minted by over 70 cities in

the province, and are analyzed by die. The arrangement is by Roman
conventus. The coins are from the same principal collections used
throughout the series. Co-published by Bibliothéque nationale de France;
the text is in French. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book
Company.
CJ1375 2006-021666 0-89757-074-X
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eeccoonnoommyy ooff PPaalleessttiinnee
Evans, Jane DeRose. (The joint expedition to Caesarea Maritima exca-
vation reports; v.6)
Am.Schools / Oriental Research, ©2006 240 p. $84.95
In summer of 1971, the project began archaeological excavations in the
sand dunes that covered Caesarea, the former port and capital of
Palestine, and continued steadily for 12 summers with further inter-
mittent efforts until 1995. Evans (art history, Temple U.) examines coins
found there that illuminate the history of the city and environs from the
fourth century BCE to the seventh CE. Distributed in North America by
The David Brown Book Co.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Justin Wintle.
Routledge, ©2007 1759 p. $395.00
The goal of each entry in this fascinating reference is to convey the
impact the writer, photographer, thinker, or other creative person had on
culture—as the editor puts it, the way their work influenced “how we see
ourselves”. There are 957 entries in this two-volume work, which com-
prises an expanded and completely revised edition that combines the
1981 Makers of modern culture and the 1982 Makers of nineteenth-century
culture. (Both were also edited by Wintle and published by Routledge.)

The entries are written at a level that will be of use to the general reader
as well as the college student. Each entry contains cross-referenced names
and terms in bold-face in the text, and concludes with a brief annotated
bibliography. The chronological parameters are 1850 to the present, with
attention to those whose work substantially influenced their times and
subsequent eras. Though a few especially influential politicians are
included (Lech Walesa, for example), the selection is mainly limited to
those who worked in the arts, philosophy, literature, psychology, soci-
ology, science, technology, and industry.
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mmooddeerrnn ccuullttuurraall sscciieenncceess
Title main entry. Ed. by Peter N. Miller. (UCLA Center/Clark series)
U. of Toronto Press, ©2007 399 p. $75.00
Scholars of history and other humanities explore history’s debt to anti-
quarianism described both explicitly and implicitly by 20th-century his-
torian and historiographer Arnaldo Momigliano. Among their topics are
his method and the Warburg Institute, historia literaria and cultural
history from Mylaeus to Eichorn, the history of religions, and
Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish history and tradition. The
12 essays are from a conference in Los Angeles at an undisclosed date.
D113 2007-277193 978-1-55111-695-2
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Title main entry. Ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein.
Broadview Press, ©2007 354 p. $52.95 (pa)
Sinbad the Sailor traveled to many far corners of the world, but until
now perhaps had never reached an anthology of readings for an under-

graduate medieval history course. His tale is one of the Islamic and
Byzantine texts that Rosenwein (history, Loyola U., Chicago) has incorpo-
rated alongside traditional Western European literature in her two-
volume anthology. Though usable with any history text, it is formatted to
accompany A Short History of the Middle Ages volume one, the chapters
having the same titles and chronological scope. Among the texts are
records of sales, poems, histories, and of course fanciful tales.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein.
Broadview Press, ©2006 594 p. $52.95 (pa)
Rosenwein (history, Loyola U. Chicago) has collected a very lively set of
Western, Byzantine and Islamic documents and readings from the later
Roman world to the beginning of the sixteenth century. She includes
commentary and contexts for each, covering such topics as imperial pol-
itics, orthodoxy, thought, the emergence of sibling cultures and the cre-
ating of new identities, political reorganizations, the expansion of the
concept of “Europe,” the Crusades, the Norman conquest of England, the
institutionalization of aspiration, catastrophe, creativity and the New
World.
D121 978-2-503-51526-7
PPeeooppllee aanndd ssppaaccee iinn tthhee mmiiddddllee aaggeess;; 330000 11330000
Title main entry. Ed. by Wendy Davies et al. (Studies in the early
middle ages; v.15)
Brepols Publishers, ©2006 366 p. $123.00
The concern here is not with outer space, which had yet to be invented,
nor with the inner space of conscience and faith, but with middle space,
where people live: the landscape. Historians specializing in the early and

central Middle Ages discuss how human communities used land, and
how the communities were shaped in turn by the landed resources
available. Their topics include the curious landscape of Reykjahverfi in
northeastern Iceland, mapping the land units of late Anglo-Saxon and
Norman England, and memory and space in Medieval monasteries.
Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
D172 978-99932-7-091-1
CCooiinnaaggee ooff tthhee ccrruussaaddeerrss aanndd tthhee wwoorrlldd ooff IIssllaamm
Title main entry. Ed. by Emmanuel Azzopardi.
Midsea Books Ltd, ©2007 303 p. $156.00
Collector Azzopardi, who specializes in the coins of Malta, the Middle
Ages, and the Crusades, here provides a survey of crusader, Islamic, and
related coins, most of them produced between the 11th-17th centuries.
Short historical essays precede the coins in each of the categories
described, which include different states, reigns, or events. Published in
an oversized format (8.75x12″), the volume contains images of all the
coins of this impressive collection with short descriptive entries.
Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
D228 2004-028878 1-58765-214-5
TThhee RReennaaiissssaannccee aanndd eeaarrllyy mmooddeerrnn eerraa;; 22vv
Title main entry. Ed. by Christina J. Moose. (Great events from history)
Salem Press, ©2005 1014 p. $191.00
Part of an ongoing revision of the earlier 12-volume set, this two-volume
work incorporates 88 essays from the Chronology of European History:
15,000 B.C. to 1997, Great Events from History: North American Series, rev.
ed., and Great Events from History: Modern European Series, as well as
some 242 new entries. The material is aimed at providing high school
and undergraduate audiences with worldwide coverage of milestones of
geopolitics as well as key social and scientific developments. Topic areas
include agriculture, art, astronomy, biology, colonization, communica-

tions, cultural and intellectual history, diplomacy and international rela-
tions, health and medicine, historiography, inventions, legal history, trade
and commerce, and wars, uprisings, and civil unrest, among others. The
chronologically arranged entries average 1,600 words and include the
name and date (or date range) of the event, the locale, the category (e.g.,
“architecture” or “wars, uprisings, and civil unrest”), names and
birth/death dates of key figures, and a summary which concludes with
a note about the significance of the event and suggestions for further
reading. Also included are maps, a keyword list of contents, a time line,
a glossary, and a list of electronic resources (in addition to a bibliography
of sources in print).
D299 2006-007335 0-684-31359-6
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aanndd eemmppiirree;; 55vv
Title main entry. Ed. by John Merriman and Jay Winter. (Scribner
library of modern Europe)
Thomson Gale, ©2006 2,500 p. $595.00
Written by academic specialists at universities in Europe, Australia, and
North America, the entries of this reference are authoritative but also
accessible to the undergraduate student and general reader. There are
entries for countries, cities, and people, as well as different styles of art
and architecture, events, inventions, and political parties. An approach
that emphasizes society and daily life is present, and entries are included
describing classes and class systems. As is common in encyclopedias, the
majority of the entries are biographical, with many entries devoted to
composers, artists, and writers, as well as the more expected political
figures and leaders. The volumes are well-illustrated with b&w images
and groups of color plates devoted to different themes. Each entry con-
cludes with a bibliography. Maps are provided at the beginning of all
five volumes. Volume five contains a comprehensive bibliography.

Forming a comprehensive reference when combined with its companion
set, Europe since 1914; encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction,
the substance and quality of the entries is consistently high throughout
all 10 volumes.
D424 2006-014427 0-684-31365-0
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Title main entry. Ed. by John Merriman and Jay Winter. (Scribner
library of modern Europe)
Thomson Gale, ©2006 3135 p. $595.00
Encompassing the era from 1914 to the present, the entries of this 5-
volume reference provide an often sobering insight into the many cata-
clysmic events of Europe’s recent past. Because their experience bears
close ties to more western Europe, both Russia and Turkey are included.
The two world wars, their participants, victims, and long-term and far-
ranching impacts are a predominent theme. Many entries are biogra-
phies—of writers, artists, filmmakers, political figures, and thinkers.
Entries are included for individual countries and for some major cities,
particularly where their history during this era was of widespread
importance. Other categories include economic history, concepts and
ideas, daily life, law, and philosophy. A thematic list of contents and a
very substantial comprehensive index are included in volume five. Both
editors are at Yale U.; the contributors are academics and independent
scholars in North America and Europe. The volumes are well illustrated
with b&w images and a group of full-page maps is found at the
beginning of each volume. “This is a companion set to the 5-volume
Europe 1789 to 1914; Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire.”
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DA142 978-1-84217-215-5
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ooff CCoolliinn BBuurrggeessss
Title main entry. Ed. by Christopher Burgess et al.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 427+ p. $180.00
In honor of Colin Burgess’ birthday and contributions to understanding
“The Age of Stonehenge” (the title of his seminal series), colleagues and
members of the Bronze Age Studies Group which he founded present the
latest thinking on this period in England and elsewhere. Christopher
Burgess (county archeologist, Northumberland, UK; a relation to the
honoree?) introduces 37 chapters (seven in untranslated French) treating
theoretical debates over culture contact and change and prehistoric arte-
facts (e.g., rock art, masonry towers, jewelry). Lastly, contributors present
personal perspectives on Burgess’ influence through his classes at
Newcastle U. The volume includes a Burgess bibliography, maps and
illustrations (16 pages of color plates), but not an index. Distributed in
North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DA142 978-1-905624-08-9
TThhee SSttoonneehheennggee ccoommppaanniioonn
McClintock, James.
English Heritage, ©2006 157 p. $24.00
McClinton assembles views about the famous megalithic monument on
Salisbury Plain since its first mention in writing a thousand years ago.
He concludes that, whatever its builders had in mind, it serves as a
mirror reflecting the prejudices and practices of each passing age.
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Title main entry.
English Heritage, ©2006 — p. $19.95
Located in Wiltshire, England, Stonehenge is one of the most famous pre-
historic sites in the world. This volume presents high-quality color pho-
tographs of the site taken at all times of day and night and in all seasons
of the year. Each image is accompanied by a diagram indicating the
position from which the photo was taken. Other than photo captions, a
brief introduction is the only text. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Co. Oversize: 10.5x8″ .
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Gardner, Andrew. (Publications of the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London)
Left Coast Press, ©2007 311 p. $34.95 (pa)
Identity in Roman Britain was not simple and it was not set in stone. One
notable example was that of the Roman soldier during the decline of the
Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. As lines of authority collapsed
and he became less and less relevant, the Roman solider had a number
of available options, including withdrawing, defecting to another armed
force, or going native. Gardner (archaeology of the Roman Empire,
University College, London) makes good use of the theories of Giddens
and others to examine how people create and maintain their identities in
terms of nationality, gender, class and ethnicity. He then compares these
theories to practice as expressed by portable and architectural material
culture and texts. The result is quite different than we expected about the
fates of these complex identities and serves as a model for more com-
parisons of identity with artifacts.
DA146 978-1-904675-19-8
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Osborn, Geraint. (Greece and Rome Live)
Bristol Phoenix Press, ©2006 132 p. $24.95 (pa)
A British social historian specializing in Antiquity, Osborn discusses sol-
diers, farmers, merchants, and other ordinary people who lived in and
close to the forts of the Roman wall across what is now northern
England. He also describes the methods that historians and archaeolo-
gists use to come to conclusions. His account can be used as a companion
for travelers or a textbook in a non-specialist course on Roman Britain.
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Vivian, Frances. Ed. by Roger White.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2006 497 p. $139.95
The late art historian Vivian was undoubtedly motivated to research the
life of Frederick, Prince of Wales, because of his reputation as a patron
of the arts who sponsored artists who had immigrated to England,
including Amigoni and Jean Baptiste Vanloo, and such important figures
of English Rococo as John Wootton, Philip Mercier, and Joseph Goupy,
but her biography of the son of King George the II and father of King
George III also explores other aspects of his life, including his contentious
relationship with his parents, his political activities, and his personal
relationships.
DA660 978-1-904350-75-0
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Saunders, Andrew. (The Society for Medieval Archaeology; monograph
24)
Maney Publishing, ©2006 490 p. $81.00 (pa)
Saunders directed the intermittent excavations at the castle from 1961 to
1983, which yielded valuable information about the medieval castle and

its environs, and contributed insights to castle studies in Europe gen-
erally. Many of the findings have been made available previously—in the
on-site museum and editions of the English Heritage guidebook, for
example—but here they are all brought together for the first time. Others
members of the team also contribute chapters or sections. Distributed in
North America by The David Brown Book Company.
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Baker, John T. (Studies in regional and local history; v.4)
U. of Hertfordshire Press, ©2006 303 p. $35.95 (pa)
Baker here revises and augments his 2001 Ph.D. dissertation for the
University of Birmingham on the transition from the Romano-British to
Anglo-Saxon culture in the region. That transition, always controversial,
has become more so in the past few decades as archaeological findings
call into further question documents that many scholars had long con-
sidered pure fantasy anyway. He looks at the evidence of archaeology
and place names to illuminate just how the shift happened.
DA670 978-1-84217-207-0
EExxccaavvaattiioonnss aatt SStt JJaammeess’’ss PPrriioorryy,, BBrriissttooll
Jackson, Reg.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 203 p. $60.00
With help from colleagues, Jackson reports on excavations between 1989
and 1995 of the Benedictine priory of St. James, which was established
just outside the medieval city of Bristol about 1129. They also include
information from observing landscaping of parish burial grounds in
1997. The buildings, the burials, and the artefacts found are described
and often illustrated with photographs or drawings. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co.
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pprroojjeecctt
Thomas, Christopher et al. (MoLAS monograph; 22)
Mus/London Archaeology Service, ©2006 224 p. $60.00 (pa)
Thomas, Robert Cowie, and Jane Sidell describe and discuss the excava-
tions during the 1990s in advance of the subway extension, and integrate
the findings with those of both archaeological and antiquarian efforts
during the 18th, 19th, and 20th century to present a unified account of
what science now thinks has been going on there since Mesolithic and
Neolithic times. The juicy bits about the royal family are in a different
volume, which is not cheap! Distributed in the US by the David Brown
Book Company.
DA687 1-901992-60-8
TThhee mmeeddiieevvaall ppoosstteerrnn ggaattee bbyy tthhee ttoowweerr ooff LLoonnddoonn
Whipp, David.
Mus/London Archaeology Service, ©2006 73 p. $16.00 (pa)
This study details the excavation and aspects of the medieval postern gate
found at the junction of Tower Hill’s defensive wall and the moat of the
Tower of London, constructed between 1297 and 1308 and found in 1979.
The excavation was done by the former Inner London Archaeological
Unit. First summarized is the current knowledge about medieval gates
and posterns, as well as the circumstances of the excavation and a
description of the report structure. What follows is a narrative of the
archaeological and documentary evidence for the development of the
gateway, and questions of whether the gate was administered by the city
rather than a nearby castle, whether there was an earlier gate, the
appearance of the gateway, and the character of the Tower Hill area, its
pottery and ivory and bone working. Summaries in German and French

are provided. The publication is a joint venture between English Heritage
and the Museum of London Archaeology Service to publish backlog sites
identified in the London post-excavation review. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co.
DA687 0-904220-36-2
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Keevill, Graham and Steve Kelly. (Oxford archaeology occasional paper;
no.12)
Oxford Archaeology, ©2006 80 p. $15.00 (pa)
During the period 1997-2000, Oxford Archaeology carried out a series of
archaeological investigations at the Tower of London. This report sum-
marizes what was found there, including traces of Roman deposits, the
remains of medieval buildings, and features constructed within the royal
garden. The excellently preserved remains of Dugal Campbell’s 18th-
century Irish Barracks are also described. The volume is thoroughly illus-
trated with photographs and diagrams (many in color). Distributed in
North America by the David Brown Book Company.
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TThhee aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy ooff tthhee uuppppeerr cciittyy aanndd aaddjjaacceenntt ssuubbuurrbbss
Steane, Kate. (Lincoln archaeological studies; no.3)
Oxbow Books, ©2006 311 p. $65.00
Steane and others from the city of Lincoln Archaeology Unit staff
describe excavations of the Upper City at Lincoln in England and
adjacent suburbs from the period of 1972 to 1987. Data on artefactual
and environmental finds is integrated into the presentation of the strati-
graphic sequence, which is organized by Land Use Blocks and Context
Groups. The first chapter gives background on the project and proce-
dures used, followed by descriptions of each site, which include those in
and around Lincoln Cathedral, St. Paul in the Bail, Mint Wall, and West

Bight. Distributed by The David Brown Book Co.
DA690 978-0-946722-20-4
TThhee cchhuurrcchhyyaarrdd
Mays, S. et al. (WHARRAM; a study of settlement on the Yorkshire
Wolds; 11, Archaeological publications; 13)
York U. Archaeological Publications, ©2007 470 p. $57.50
They are the primary sources of information about many aspects of past
life, and often they are the only sources. Along with bones are artifacts
with which people were buried, the receptacles in which they were
buried and the means of covering the graves. The Wharram Perry church
and churchyard have yielded their secrets to archeologists for a couple of
decades now, and this magnificent description of the over 900 medieval
bodies and other evidence gives the workers as well as their findings
their due. This Yorkshire site had burials from about 950 to 1906, and
this report reflects the long time the church was active, describing the
churchyard and the land, the excavations, the human remains, the
burials, the pottery, the small objects of various materials, including
coins and glass, and environmental evidence. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Company.
DA690 978-0-904220-40-7
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Munby, Julian et al. (Occasional paper; no.16)
Oxford Archaeology, ©2007 105 p. $15.00 (pa)
The Cistercian house of Rewley, on the western outskirts of medieval
Oxford, England, was founded in 1280 as a chantry and later became an
abbey and a studium. By the mid 19th century a railway station,
remarkable in that it was built as a twin sister to the Crystal Palace of
London, occupied the same site. This volume reports on the past forty
years of excavation, building survey, and documentary research on the

site, the bulk carried out by Oxford Archaeology. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co.
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Framework Archaeology. (John Lewis et al.) (Framework archaeology
monograph; no.1)
Oxford Archaeology, ©2006 250 p. $30.00
This is the first volume describing the findings of archaeological work
in West London’s Middle Thames valley, at the site dubbed “Terminal 5,”
because it is beneath that wing of the London/Heathrow Airport.
Discussing discoveries made between 1996 and 2000, project manager
John Lewis and collaborators survey and interpret the physical evidence
of human inhabitation of the area, dating as early as the seventh mil-
lennium BC, and its evolution through the ages. Notable periods include
the appearance of settlements in 1700 BC, agricultural activity during the
Bronze Age, and the dominating landscape of the Roman period. This
book is distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DA690 1-84217-213-1
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Stocker, David and Paul Everson.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 316 p. $120.00
Between 1984 and 1992, Stocker and Everson undertook fieldwork for the
Lincolnshire volume of the series Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture,
and picked up enough extraneous material for a volume on the towers
of the many 11th-century churches there. The core of the volume is an
inventory with details of construction, photographs, plans, and maps.
They also describe and define the Lincolnshire Tower group as a whole,

and discuss such aspects as date and style, landscape, the social and eco-
nomic context, and symbols of the psychopomp as a possible motivation
for building the towers. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
DA690 978-1-901992-65-6
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ooff tthhee bbiisshhooppss ooff WWiinncchheesstteerr
Seeley, Derek et al. (MoLAS monographs; 31)
Mus/London Archaeology Service, ©2006 157 p. $32.00 (pa)
This volume describes the site and building sequence of the bishop of
Winchester’s palace (now in Southwark) from the earliest finds through
the initial building in the 12th century, rebuilding in the 13th century,
and continuing additions and changes into the 17th century. The analysis
is based on excavations carried out in the 1980s together with study of
the historical record. The volume is oversized (8.25x11.75″) and well illus-
trated with drawings, plans, diagrams, photos, and historical views.
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McCutcheon, Clare.
Royal Irish Academy, ©2006 213 p. $40.00
Over 200,000 shards of pottery were recovered from the excavation, some
10,000 of them from late medieval and post-medieval times.
Archaeologist McCutcheon illustrates—mostly in drawings with some pho-
tographs—and describes a representative selection of these. She also dis-
cusses the purpose and methodology of the study, and the historical
background to the pottery. Patrick F. Wallace, who directed the project,
contributes an introduction. There is no index. Distributed in the US by
ISBS.

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Craig, Maurice.
Liberties Press, ©2006 384 p. $25.95 (pa)
Architectural historian Craig makes sure readers understand the flavor
of the buildings along with their features and purposes, getting to the
reasons they were there. He also describes well the people in the
buildings and the reasons they got together, focusing on Ormonde, Swift
and Grattan as points of reference. As he describes the development of
Dublin’s streets and neighborhoods he also describes the effects of
English occupation, the development of the Irish intellectual community
and their houses, the roles of charity and entertainment in building, the
impact of the university and its props, including printers, libraries and
other academic architecture. The result is an insider’s view of Dublin,
part of which no longer breathes.
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Haine, W. Scott. (Culture and customs of Europe)
Greenwood Press, ©2006 315 p. $49.95
For general readers, Haine (European history, Holy Names U.) describes
aspects of the culture and customs of France within a historical context,
including the land, people, and history; religion and thought; gender,
marriage, family, and education; and leisure activities. Other topics
covered encompass food and fashion, literature, media, cinema, per-
forming arts, and art, architecture, and housing. A few b&w photos are
included.
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Oliver, Bette W.
Lexington Books, ©2007 107 p. $18.95 (pa)
Oliver (eighteenth-century French history, U. of Texas, Austin) discusses
the transition of the Louvre Museum and the Bibliothéque Nationale
(formed from royal and monastery libraries) from royal to national insti-
tutions. Describing the endeavor and its challenges beginning with the
French Revolution through The Terror and to the end of the Napoleonic
wars (1789-1815), chapters detail the destruction by decree of works of
art popular under the Old Regime, the confiscations of foreign collections
during Napoleon’s conquest, and the architectural and cultural evolution
of the Paris landmarks.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Mary Anne Perkins and Martin Liebscher.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2006 308 p. $119.95
The anthology was inspired by a symposium held in conjunction with
the March 2001 exhibit Spirit of an Age at the National Gallery in
London. Looking at such cultural productions as poetry, music, and
architecture, scholars examine the contrast between and surprising
overlap between calls for a German nation state and a vibrant Europe
during the long 19th century. Quotations are in German with English
translation.
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Fraser, Catherine C. and Dierk O. Hoffmann. (Popular culture in the
contemporary world)

ABC-CLIO, ©2006 405 p. $85.00
For students, travelers, and general readers, this volume introduces
modern German culture, including lifestyle, art, entertainment, tele-
vision, music, and film. Not only focusing on pop culture, Fraser
(German, Indiana U., Bloomington) and Hoffmann (German studies,
Colgate U.) discuss the ambivalent attitude Germans have toward their
country and past; idiosyncrasies in language, gestures, stereotypes,
symbols, and sexuality; political, legal, and social structures; and social
aspects such as lifestyle, fashion, youth culture, gender equality, multi-
culturalism, and food. Leisure activities are described, followed by media,
performing arts, visual arts and architecture, and production and con-
sumption information. Coverage spans the postwar years, time of
rebellion, and the present post- unification era, but is supplemented by
information on history. The authors include impressions and attitudes
from magazines, papers, and individuals, as well as facts, which are
related through alphabetical listings of terms in the “From A to Z” sec-
tions at the end of each chapter.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Ian Hodder and Louise Doughty.
McDonald Inst./Archaeol. Res., ©2007 152 p. $70.00 (pa)
A team of archaeologists, architects, and heritage professionals from uni-
versities, government agencies, and non-government organizations in
Mediterranean countries and Britain initiated a project in 2001 to identify
effective ways to manage, present, and interpret prehistoric sites, and
here present their findings. Some focus on one of the five sites chosen as
examples, but most consider general topics such as protection and con-
servation, community involvement, and management plans. The disk

contains management plans for the sites. There is no index. Distributed
in North America by The David Brown Book Company.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Corinna Riva and Nicholas C. Vella.
(Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology; 10)
Equinox Publishing Limited, ©2006 170 p. $95.00
Orientalism has variously been considered a cultural phenomenon, revo-
lution, movement, or outdated concept of an exotic “Other.” In a volume
derived from a multidisciplinary forum on the subject held in 2002 at St.
John’s College, Oxford—while the editors were researching cultural
exchange in Etruria and Sardinia, Riva (Mediterranean archeology, U.
College London) and Vella (classics and archeology, U. of Malta)
introduce this issue and related debates. Ten papers attempt to clarify
“Orientilizing” by treating topics including approaches to constructing
historical periods, methodologies, and the diversity and power relations
of hybrid cultures influenced by Oriental ideas and material culture.
Illustrations include study site maps and artifacts. Distributed in North
America by David Brown Book Co.
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Biborski, Marcin and Jørgen Ilkjær. (Jutland Archaeological Society pub-
lications XXV: 11/12, 2006)
Aarhus University Press, ©2006 826 p. $93.00
The swords and sheaths of the Illerup find are analyzed and catalogued
in this beautifully executed 2-volume publication (oversize, 8.5x12″). Each
piece is discussed in careful detail in volume 1, which also contains
essays about swords in the post-Roman era, among other topics. Superb
drawings and photographs accompany the highly detailed catalog entries

of volume 2. The volumes are in German (only). There is an extensive
bibliography, but no index. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
DE61 978-1-84217-263-6
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Hartley, Katharine F. and Roberta Tomber.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 139 p. $48.00 (pa)
This project, which was initiated by English Heritage in response to the
Fulford report on The current state of Romano-British pottery studies, is a
comprehensive bibliography bringing together the literature on moratoria
from the last 30 years, presented by region and with an introductory
summary for each. Important earlier monographs and sources are
included. Emphasis is on published material; scientific analysis is
restricted to that only on moratoria, and information from archival
material held by individuals and organizations is selectively included. An
abbreviated version is available online. Sources for the text are bibli-
ographies by Hartley and Peter Cheer, and a computerized version of the
annual Journal of Roman Pottery Studies bibliography. Local journals
from 1970 to 2001 were also searched. A place name index and alpha-
betical listing are provided. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
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CCllaassssiiccaall aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy
Title main entry. Ed. by Susan E. Alcock and Robin Osborne.
(Blackwell studies in global archaeology; 10)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2007 447 p. $74.95
This work is intended by editors Alcock (director, Institute for Archeology
and the Ancient World, Brown U., US) and Osborn (ancient history, U. of
Cambridge, UK) to serve as an introduction to the material archaeology

of the “Classical World;” the world of the Greeks and the Romans
between the eighth century BC and the fourth century AD. Following an
overview of the field’s scope and range and an introduction to its
standard methodological tools and modes of analysis, chapters introduce
current understandings of classical rural, urban, and household archae-
ology. Remaining chapters summarize archaeological knowledge of civic
religion, commemorative statuary as an expression of political self-pres-
entation, the projection of community identities, and processes and
impacts of cultural interchange. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Co.
DE86 978-1-84217-183-7
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International Congress of Classical Archaeology (16th: 2003: Boston,
MA) Ed. Carol C. Mattusch et al.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 630 p. $150.00
Mattusch (George Mason U.), Donohue (Bryn Mawr College), and Brauer
(Harvard U. Art Museums) present the proceedings of the August 2003
International Conference of Classical Archaeology, which began with a
keynote address calling for a “unifying vision” in studies of archaeology,
literature, epigraphy, geography, prehistory and history, art, and tech-
nology. The archaeologists, art historians, conservation scientists, and
others responsible for the 140 papers, 21 posters, eight colloquia, and two
roundtable sessions were apparently tasked with advancing such a goal
in sessions discussing the history of archaeology, recycling in antiquity,
magic and religious practices, cultural interactions in the classical world,
museums and collecting in the past, numismatics and epigraphy,
Dionysiac imagery, ancient technology through modern lenses, bound-
aries and the classical “periphery,” conservation and restoration,
methods and meanings in funerary practices, Roman social history and

archaeology, elements of archaeology in the ancient world, recording the
past, iconography in sculpture, landscapes, iconography of myth, and
children in ancient Greece. New discoveries from sites around the world
were also reported in a number of other sessions. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co.
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Title main entry. Ed. by Colin Adams and Jim Roy.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 205 p. $80.00
In 12 papers from an April 2002 seminar in Nottingham, historians and
archaeologists demonstrate how people saw the world before the tourist
industry was there to serve their every whim. Their topics include
Egyptians abroad in the Late Period, traveling by land in ancient Greece,
the function and interpretation of travel in the Greek novels, and land-
scapes and identity in the mosaics of Antioch. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co.
DF78 978-87-7934-238-5
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ccoommppaarraattiivvee ppeerrssppeeccttiivvee
Title main entry. Ed. by Pia Guldager Bilde and Vladimir F. Stolba.
(Black Sea studies; v.4)
Aarhus University Press, ©2006 346 p. $46.95
Archaeologists and classicists draw evidence from landscape archaeology
to explore the relationship between Greek cities and their territory, and
between Greek settlers and the indigene environment in the Black Sea
region from the seventh to the fourth centuries AD. Among their topics
are community in the hinterlands of a Black Sea port, the chora of
Kerkinitis, and ancient roads and land divisions in the chorai of the

European Bosporos and Chersonesos. The 15 papers, one in German,
were presented at an August-September 2003 conference in Sønderborg,
Denmark. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book
Company.
DF212 978-1-931909-15-0
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bbiibblliiooggrraapphhiicc hhaannddlliisstt,, 22dd eedd
Runnels, Curtis.
Archaeological Inst.of America, ©2007 81 p. $19.95 (pa)
Runnels (archaeology, Boston U.) presents an annotated list of published
works on the prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean world, written by
archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. His aim is to bring together a list of
these publications in one volume—in English—to contribute to the larger
understanding of his contribution to archaeology. Books and journal
articles are emphasized; newspaper and magazine articles are omitted,
as are the writings of Sophia Schliemann. Sources are listed chronologi-
cally. The book is meant for Aegean prehistorians, those writing the
history of archaeology, librarians, and students. In lieu of an index, a
short title list is provided. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
DF214 2006-016525 978-1-58765-281-3
AAnncciieenntt GGrreeeeccee;; 33vv
Title main entry. Ed. by Thomas J. Sienkewicz. (Magill’s choice)
Salem Press, ©2007 1028 p. $207.00
Sienkewicz (Monmouth College) presents 315 topical articles, ranging in
length from one to eight pages, exploring Greek history and culture from
the earliest archaeological evidence to the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.E.,
which marked the merging of the Greek and Roman civilizations.
Presented over the course of three volumes, the entries discuss art and
architecture, daily life and customs, death and burial, education and

training, government and law, language and literature, medicine and
health, navigation and transportation, the performing arts, religion and
ritual, science, settlements and social structure, sports and entertainment,
technology, trade and commerce, war and weapons, and women’s lives.
Also included are numerous biographical entries on political and mil-
itary leaders, as well as important thinkers and literary figures. A small
collection of maps and a key to pronunciation is included at the start of
each volume. Included at the end of the third volume are category, per-
sonages, and subject indexes.
DF214 2005-013103 978-0-631-23014-4
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Title main entry. Ed. by Konrad H. Kinzl. (Blackwell companions to the
ancient world)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2006 606 p. $129.95
Kinzl (ancient history, Trent U., emeritus) has gathered into a single
volume material usually scattered throughout a variety of publications.
The essays, which are written by international scholars, address topics
not usually found in discussions of this period in Greek history such as
government, the environment, art, philosophy, rhetoric, religion and
society. The volume includes a concise narrative overview of the period
from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of
Alexander the Great in 323 BC. It is fully illustrated and contains several
maps, as well as a thorough treatment of both written and material
sources.
DF220 2006-027437 1-931534-16-0
AAeeggeeaann bbrroonnzzee aaggee rrhhyyttaa
Koehl, Robert B. (Prehistory monographs; 19)
Inst. /Aegean Prehistory Press, ©2006 484 p. $120.00
Rhyta (singular rhyton) are horn-shaped vessels with two holes in them,
usually at opposite ends, widely known from Classical times. Koehl

examines examples from much earlier in region of the Aegean Sea. In
addition to presenting a catalogue of known examples, he discusses their
typology, history, and development; mechanical functions; and uses.
Published by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press, and
distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company.
DF220 2006-033014 978-0-89236-867-9
TThhee MMyycceennaaeeaannss
Schofield, Louise.
Getty Publications, ©2007 208 p. $29.95 (pa)
Archaeologist Schofield, formerly a curator at the British Museum, charts
the story of the Greek civilization that flourished during the Late Bronze
Age, about 1600-1100 BC from its origins to eventual fall. Among the
events are the founding of Troy, the adoption of the Minoan palace
system from Crete, the circle of graves, the Trojan War, and the epics and
legends the Mycenaeans have inspired over the subsequent millennia. She
writes for general readers, but cites more detailed and technical sources.
Many photographs, about half in color, are included.
DF221 2006-045296 1-931909-14-8
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PP BBeettaannccoouurrtt;; pprroocceeeeddiinnggss
Archaeological Institute of America. General Meeting (104th: 2003: New
Orleans, LA) Ed. by Malcolm H. Wiener et al.
Archaeological Inst.of America, ©2006 157 p. $45.00
Five papers explore what pottery can reveal about society on the island
of Crete during the Minoan period. Archaeologists discuss such topics as
pottery making and social reproduction in the Bronze Age Mesara, tra-
ditions and trends in the production and consumption of storage con-
tainers in proto-palatial and neo-palatial Crete, and whether southeastern
Anatolian pottery from Late Minoan Crete is evidence for direct contact

between Arzawa and Keftiu. There is no index.
DF261 978-0-87661-535-5
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Merker, Gloria S. (Hesperia supplement; 35)
Am.School of Classical Studies at Athens, ©2006185 p. $55.00 (pa)
This volume describes the Tile Works at Corinth, first excavated in 1939,
including discussions of work areas in the factory, a chronology of the
site deposits, and an inventory of objects manufactured in each of the
kilns. Merker discusses the finds and the main features of the site, and
establishes when the kilns were in operation and the products manufac-
tured in them, with b&w photos and an individual description of each.
Imports, mainly Attic, are detailed in the final chapter. The book does
not include a technical study of the structure and operation of the kilns.
A descriptive catalogue with photographs of the architectural terracottas,
prepared by Charles K. Williams II during the 1980s, is presented in an
appendix. Books from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
are distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
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Title main entry. Ed. by D. Evely. (Supplementary; v.39)
British School at Athens, ©2006 435 p. $196.00
This volume presents an impressive report of the well- known Xeropolis
site, excavated in 1964-1970. The authors include Mervyn Popham
(d.2000), who was particularly involved in the excavations and their pub-
lication. Published in an oversize format (8.5x12″), the volume contains
two fold-out drawings of the site and many drawings and plates. The
chapters describe in detail the site and its excavation, the pottery, the ter-

racotta figures, and the small miscellaneous finds. A concluding chapter,
by Susan Sheratt, summarizes the chief conclusions to be drawn from
the excavation finds and the importance of the site in a larger archaeo-
logical context. In addition, a CD-ROM contains appendices on the
human burials, the shells, statistics and tables on the pottery, and con-
cordances. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DF287 2006-040782 0-87661-233-8
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Rotroff, Susan I. (The Athenian Agora; v.33)
Am.School of Classical Studies at Athens, ©2006626 p. $150.00
This impressive volume presents three decades of research by its author,
containing a survey of the chief types of plain, unglossed pottery pro-
duced at the Athenian Agora during the Hellenistic period (through the
1st century, BCE). Published in an oversize format (9x12.25″ ), the volume
contains 98 pages of figures (mainly profiles of the wares) and 90 b&w
plates of photos. The survey follows a general overview and is organized
by vessel type, subdivided by shape, with descriptions, analysis of
material, measurements, and drawings. The introductions to each vessel
type provides an overview of their occurrence. Following the survey is a
catalogue and a section of deposit summaries, describing every deposit
from which pottery in this work came. Concordances are included of
Agora excavations inventory numbers, coins, Knidian type numbers, and
Murr and Agora sample numbers. Deposit and Greek indexes are pro-
vided. This will be an invaluable resource to the specialist. Distributed in
North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DF759 1-905739-02-8
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Bent, Mabel.
Archaeopress, ©2006 366 p. $49.95 (pa)

The Anglo-Irish woman of means and her English archaeological adven-
turer husband spent 20 years traveling the world together. He wrote
scholarly books that were published. She kept detailed journals, which
found their way to the Hellenic Society in London after she died in 1929
and remained there until now. This first volume presents Mabel Brent’s
chronicles of their travels and archaeological and ethnographic findings
around the Aegean Sea from 1883-98. The other two volumes will cover
Arabia and the Near East, and Egypt and Africa. Editors Gerland Brisch
and Brenda Stones provide explanatory footnotes, biographical sketches
that double as an index of people, and an index of places. Distributed in
North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DF901 2006-048747 978-0-87661-406-8
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Andrews, Kevin. (Gennadeion monographs; 4)
Am.School of Classical Studies at Athens, ©2006314 p. $75.00
Long out of print, this extraordinary work was first published in 1953,
five years after the author graduated from Harvard and received a trav-
eling fellowship from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Douglas Gordon undertook to visit, photograph, and describe the
medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese at a time when studying Greece
meant studying the ancients, and at a time (the end of the Greek Civil
War) when such travel was difficult. Also remarkable is his evocative use
of language, conveying his passion for the subject. This reprint makes the
work available again with a new foreword by Glenn R. Bugh (history,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute) setting Andrews’ work in context and
offering some new scholarship. The Grimani maps—a collection of 17th-
century fortification plans that inspired Andrews—are reproduced in
color rather than b&w as in the original. The volume is oversize, meas-
uring 9.25x12.25″. Books from the American School of Classical Studies
at Athens are distributed in North America by The David Brown Book

Co.
DF901 978-1-84217-206-3
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ssttaannddss iinn SSpphhaakkiiaa,, ssoouutthhwweesstteerrnn CCrreettee
Nixon, Lucia.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 180 p. $48.00 (pa)
The Sphakia Survey is an archaeological investigation of how humans
have interacted with the landscape of a particular area in southwestern
Crete from their earliest arrival ca. 3000 B.C.E. until the end of the
Turkish period in ca. 1900 C.E. In this text, the Survey’s co-director
presents the results of a detailed study she made of two types of religious
structures in the area: outlying churches and icon stands. Employing a
phenomenological approach, she analyzes the rationale for the posi-
tioning of these structures and considers their symbolic function.
Distributed in the U.S. by The David Brown Book Company.
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DG66 2006-008624 978-0-299-22010-5
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CCaammppuuss MMaarrttiiuuss
Rehak, Paul. (Wisconsin studies in classics)
U. of Wisconsin Press, ©2006 222+ p. $60.00
The sundial is positioned perfectly to align the spoke with the earthly god
that Augustus was supposed to become. The very site of his cremation
was designed for someone not quite mortal. Rehak (late classics, U. of
Kansas) finds the places defined by the earthly death of Caesar belied
his modest protests he was first amongst equals; in fact, by his own
design or those whose agenda included deification for themselves, the
site of the northern Campus Martius was a commentary on the right of
the Caesar to be declared a god even before earthly death, if he so chose.
Rehak is careful to ground his assertions firmly in previous scholarship,

and takes a multidisciplinary approach to show how the positioning of
monuments and spaces was in fact a complex form of the language of
empire. The bibliography is particularly comprehensive.
DG70 2006-050451 978-0-312-35585-2
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Butterworth, Alex and Ray Laurence.
St. Martin’s Press, ©2006 354 p. $27.95
Drawing on recent archaeological and historical research, Butterworth, a
writer and dramatist, and Laurence, a research fellow at the U. of
Birmingham Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, offer a vivid portrait
of Pompeii during the 25 years leading up to the eruption that destroyed
it. They focus on key individuals from each stratum of Pompeian society
to create a compelling narrative that reanimates the sights and sounds of
the living city.
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Clarke, John R. Photography by Michael Larvey.
Harry N. Abrams, ©2007 175 p. $35.00
Clarke (history of art, U. of Texas at Austin) illustrates his discussion of
the lives of Roman soldiers, senators, commoners, freedpersons, mer-
chants, and slaves between 100 B.C. and 200 A.D. with 144 photographs
(many previously unpublished), diagrams, and digital renderings from
Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. Nine chapters include religious life, work, life
in the military, taverns and public latrines, baths, dinner parties, enter-
tainment, portraiture, and death and fame in ancient Roman society. The
accompanying CD-ROM contains an interactive tour through Pompeii’s
well-preserved House of the Vettii.
DG223 978-1-84217-208-7
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Conference Deliciae filictiles (3rd: 2002: Rome, Italy) Ed. by Ingrid
Edlund-Berry et al.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 508 p. $70.00
Specialists in architectural terracottas from Italy and elsewhere consider
roofing systems and decorations on them made from the material
throughout ancient Italy. After reviewing recent research generally, the 44
papers, 10 in English and most of rest in Italian, cover Etruria; Umbria
and Abruzzo; The Faliscans, Rome, and Latium; Campania and Magna
Graecia; and Sicily. They are not indexed Distributed in the US by the
David Brown Book Company.
Art Book News Annual 2008 –18–
DG235 2005-021926 978-1-4051-0217-9
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Title main entry. Ed. by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx.
(Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history)
Blackwell Publishing, ©2006 737 p. $149.95
Put together by Rosenstein (history, Ohio State U.) and Morstein-Marx
(classics, U. of California at Santa Barbara), the goal of this work is to
present some of the most important themes of and debates about the rise
and fall of the Roman Republic in a manner that takes into account the
most recent research in the literature. Following chapters that discuss the
raw material of the historiography of Rome (the historical scholarship
from the early 20th century to the present, literary and epigraphic evi-
dence, the archaeology of the Roman city, and the physical geography
and environment of Italy), the chronological framework is presented in
chapters that narrate military and political developments from the
origins of Rome to the death of Julius Caesar. Beginning with the tenth
chapter and continuing to the 25th, the material turns broadly thematic,
with sections addressing civic structures of church, law, constitution, and
military; social issues of demography, social structure, and gender; issues

of political culture, including aristocratic values, popular power,
patronage, rhetoric and public life; and questions of Roman identity,
including history and collective memory, art and architecture, literature,
and the relationships between the Roman and the Other. The final four
chapters introduce areas of continuing historical controversy such as
imperial expansion under the Republic, agrarian change and the
economy, the relationship between Rome and Italy, and the transfor-
mation from Republic to Empire.
DG235 978-87-7934-174-6
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Title main entry. Ed. by Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen. (Black Sea studies; v.5)
Aarhus University Press, ©2006 183 p. $37.00
In nine papers from an international conference held in Esbjerg,
Denmark in January 2005, historians and archaeologists discuss inter-
action between imperial Romans and the indigenous population. Among
their topics are Momnon of Herakleia on Rome and the Romans, the role
and status of the indigenous population in Bithynia, and cultural contact
and change. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DG272 0-7156-3567-0
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JJoorrddaann
Kennedy, David. (Duckworth debates in archaeology)
Duckworth, ©2006 216 p. $22.00 (pa)
Kennedy (Roman archaeology and history, U. of Western Australia)
examines a group of micro-regions in northwest Jordan from the sudden
entry of Hellenic culture in the fourth century BC, through several cen-
turies of Roman rule, and into the Umayyad civilization centered nearby
at Damascus. Like much of the Middle East, he says, this region enjoyed
a long period of growth and dramatic spread of settlement that was not

matched until the middle 20th century. He discusses the land, the people,
settlements, government, writing, and everyday life. Distributed in the US
by International Publishers Marketing.
DG272 978-1-84217-248-3
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Title main entry. Ed. by R.J.A. Wilson.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 242 p. $60.00
Frere (archeology of the Roman empire emeritus, Oxford U.) has justly
earned the appreciation of generations of colleagues and pupils, nine of
whom offer very accessible and well-illustrated accounts here, including
charming introductions that explain how they came to know and admire
Frere as a mentor and friend. They cover the relationship between urban
defenses and civic status in early Roman Britain, the evidence deter-
mining whether London was ever a colonia, the civic and military sig-
nificance of contributions toward Hadrian’s Wall, weapons and the
garrison at Newstead, elements of military fortifications of Roman
Britain, samian cups and their uses, the account of an anonymous
traveler on the Antonine Wall in 1697, two centuries of conservation and
archeology of Hadrian’s Wall and later Roman African red slip ware
from the frontier region in a province of Upper Egypt. Distributed by The
David Brown Book Co.
DG272 978-1-84217-163-9
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Conference on Roman Finds, Context and Theory (2004: Durham, UK)
Ed. by Richard Hingley and Steven Willis.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 243 p. $76.00 (pa)
The contributing archaeologists are not concerned here with changing
technologies or approaches to excavations, but with changes in the his-
torical and cultural understanding of the Roman Empire and in the the-

oretical basis of interpreting finds. One goal is to promote their
profession as a source of insight that can be used in related fields. The
focus in on the western European provinces, especially Britain.
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DG272 978-1-84217-264-3
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International Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (16th: 2006:
University of Cambridge, UK) Ed. by Ben Croxford et al.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 191 p. $56.00 (pa)
Organizers of the Theoretical Roman Archeology Conference (TRAC) held
in March 2006 introduce 13 papers representing a cross-section of the
themes discussed. Traversing the Roman Empire from Britain to North
Africa, authors consider topics including the types and social roles of
metal smiths in Egypt, public and domestic architecture, trends in
dietary consumption, the Romanizing of the Saturn cult in North Africa,
and various aspects of burials. The volume includes basic excavation and
distribution site maps and data, but lacks information on contributors’
professional affiliations and an index. Distributed by The David Brown
Book Company.
DG272 978-1-84217-219-3
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International Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (15th: 2005:
University of Birmingham, UK) Ed. by Ben Croxford et al.
Oxbow Books, ©2006 137 p. $48.00 (pa)
Three of the 11 papers were commissioned to mark the 15th year of the
Conference by taking stock of it to date and projecting its course in the
future; the 10th anniversary was similarly commemorated. Other topics
include modeling Roman demography and urban dependency in central
Italy, the Romanization of the countryside in western Gaul, and wild and

domestic animals in the Roman sacrificial ritual. There is no index.
Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company.
DG442 978-0-8020-9458-2
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White, Jonathan. (Toronto Italian studies)
U. of Toronto Press, ©2007 330 p. $75.00 (pa)
White (literature, U. of Essex, UK) considers Italian culture and identity
by tracing Italian life and art through themes: viewing, fantasy, passion,
former royal capitals, justice, reputation, and lifestyles. He examines the
“lineages” of each, using ideas from Benedetto Croce, Aijaz Ahmad, and
Antonio Gramsci, and suggests that traditions, mentalities, problems, and
solutions of the country can be traced. Examples he uses are from the
eighteenth to twentieth centuries, and relate to literature, media, opera,
and even the Las Vegas strip.
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DK859 2006-029553 978-0-313-33656-0
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Abazov, Rafis. (Culture and customs of Asia)
Greenwood Press, ©2007 286 p. $49.95
Abazov (international and public affairs, Columbia U.) provides an intro-
duction for students and general readers to the culture and customs of
Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Coverage encompasses the land, people,
language, history, and economy; thought and religion; folklore and liter-
ature, with attention to key individuals; media and cinema; performing
and visual arts; architecture; gender, courtship, and marriage; and fes-
tivals and leisure activities. Elite life, ideology, and details of political
structure and struggle are not discussed in favor of the life of common
people. B&w photos are incorporated.
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DL31 978-90-04-15893-1
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Title main entry. Ed. by Beverley Ballin Smith et al. (The northern
world; v.31)
BRILL, ©2007 581 p. $189.00
Crawford is honored in this volume with 30 essays by former students
and colleagues on topics concerning early Scandinavian travel and set-
tlement. History, culture, religion, archaeology, and place names and lan-
guage are the broad themes, with a common focus on material culture.
Individual topics including sculpture from the Faroe Islands,
Scandinavian naming systems in the Hebrides, the Church of St. Clement
in Oslo, and the Celtic sea route of the Vikings. The resulting tribute pro-
vides a fitting 20-year update to Crawford’s Scandinavian Scotland (1988,
Leicester U. Press), which set the standard for the field. A group of plates
present b&w photos of the works, sites, and monuments discussed.
DL576 978-87-7934-259-0
KKaauuppaanngg iinn SSkkiirriinnggssssaall
Title main entry. Ed. by Dagfinn Skre. (Kaupang excavation project
publication series; v.1: Norske oldfunn, 22)
Aarhus University Press, ©2007 502 p. $70.00
This is the first of an anticipated six volumes, all devoted to documenting
and analysing the extensive and longstanding excavations of the Viking
trading site. Published in an oversized format (8.5x12″), the volume is
filled with painstaking plans and drawings, as well as tables, maps, and
photographs. The first 15 chapters are grouped into three main sections;
background, excavations and surveys from 1998-2003, and scientific
analyses. Other topics are the site of Skiringssal, including its cemetery,
the 12th-century poem Ynglingatal, and towns and markets in southwest

Scandinavia in 800-950. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
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Poulter, A.G. (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of
Antiquaries of London; no.67)
Oxbow Books, ©2007 320 p. $100.00
This third volume completes the description of the excavation carried out
by the British team on the site of the Roman city in northern Bulgaria.
The findings are not only relevant to the site itself, but also serve as a
model and example for the Balkans as a whole, where very little research
of this kind and a this scale has been undertaken for the late Roman and
early Byzantine period. Among the finds described are metalwork,
ceramic objects, sculpture and architectural decoration, large mammal
and reptile bones, bird bones, human skeletal remains, and metallurgical
debris. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book
Company.
DR211 978-0-85668-812-6
AAkkhhmmiimm iinn tthhee OOlldd KKiinnggddoomm;; ppaarrtt 22:: TThhee ppootttteerryy,,
ddeeccoorraattiioonn tteecchhnniiqquueess aanndd ccoolloouurr ccoonnvveennttiioonnss
Hope, Colin A. and Ann McFarlane. (The Australian Centre for
Egyptology Reports; 7)
Australian Center for Egyptology, ©2006 264 p. $110.00 (pa)
The first volume, on chronology and administration, was published in
1992. Here begins a series of studies on art, architecture, and other
aspects of the cemetery in Upper Egypt that was surveyed, excavated, and
recorded by Macquarie University between 1979 and 1992. Hope (archae-
ology and ancient history, Monash U.) details the pottery, and McFarlane

(Egyptology, Macquarie U.) the decoration techniques and color conven-
tions. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company.
DR701 978-1-84217-234-6
RRoommaann BBuuttrriinntt;; aann aasssseessssmmeenntt
Title main entry. Ed. by Inge Lyse Hansen and Richard Hodges.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 214 p. $60.00
Archaeologists offer a fresh look at the Greek port, on the Adriatic Sea
opposite the island of Corfu and at the mouth of a large lagoon, during
the Roman period. They consider artistic and historical evidence such as
a dedication to Minerva Augusta and the monumental togate statue. They
also report and interpret findings from a new round of excavations con-
ducted 2000-2004 at Butrint and the Vrina Plain, among them the geo-
archaeology, and proposals for the function and context of two Roman
monuments. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DR724 2006-934565 978-1-59711-034-1
IIssttaannbbuull;; cciittyy ooff aa hhuunnddrreedd nnaammeess
Webb, Alex.
Aperture Foundation Corp., ©2007 135 p. $50.00
Award-winning photojournalist Webb presents his vision of the Turkish
city of Istanbul in the form of some 200 full-color photographs. His pho-
tographic work in the city has been governed in no small part by his
sense of Istanbul as a border city between Asia and Europe, between
Islam and secularism, and between ancient and modern. Turkish nov-
elist and Nobel Laureate Pamuk contributes an essay on the culture of
Istanbul and hüzün (or melancholy). Distributed in the US by Distributed
Art Publishers.
DR1645 978-0-86356-959-3
DDuubbrroovvnniikk;; aa hhiissttoorryy ((rreepprriinntt,, 22000033))
Harris, Robin.
Saqi Books, ©2006 503 p. $24.95 (pa)

The ancient and vibrant city of Dubrovnik, its history, people, archi-
tecture, culture, and conflicts are described in a fascinating text by
Harris, a British historian. Throughout, he details the trade, artistic, and
political relations with the city’s neighbors. Several sets of color plates
present charters and works of art and architecture. This is the paperback
reprint of a hardback edition published by Saqi in 2003. Distributed in
the US by Consortium.
DS36 2007-007207 1-4262-0092-7
LLoosstt hhiissttoorryy;; tthhee eenndduurriinngg lleeggaaccyy ooff MMuusslliimm sscciieennttiissttss,,
tthhiinnkkeerrss,, aanndd aarrttiissttss
Morgan, Michael Hamilton.
Natl. Geographic Society, ©2007 301 p. $26.00
Writing for a general audience, the author gives an anecdotal, and often
dramatized, history of scientific, philosophic, and artistic accomplish-
ments of Islamic civilization and their influence on Western civilization.
Rather than focus solely on the “Arab Golden Age” that also includes
Persia and Spain for the years 632 to 1258, the text focuses on many
“golden ages” of Islamic civilization, including Central Asia, Ottoman
Turkey, and Mughal India, up to the 18th century. The purpose of the
work is to provide a general introduction and therefore while the author
is aware of some of the more esoteric historical debates concerning
Islamic intellectual history he does not endeavor to address them in any
sustained fashion.
DS51 2007-367457 1-876832-05-3
TThhee hheerriittaaggee ooff EEaasstteerrnn TTuurrkkeeyy;; ffrroomm eeaarrlliieesstt sseettttlleemmeennttss
ttoo IIssllaamm
Sagona, Antonio.
Macmillan Publishers Australia, ©2006 240 p. $72.37
Intended as an introduction to the general reader and armchair traveler,
this very attractive volume contains a wealth of information, illustrated

with excellent color photos, in an oversized format (8.25x12″). Sagona, an
archaeologist at the U. of Melbourne, Australia, provides a succinct
account of the geography, peoples, history, religions, and culture of a
region that was central to the emergence of civilization under the
Sumerians and actively productive as part of the Silk Road throughout
its history (which he covers through the Ottomans). Special attention is
given to houses, castles, churches, mosques, and other notable works of
architecture. Distributed in North America by the David Brown Book
Company.
DS54 978-87-7288-836-1
PPaannaayyiiaa EEmmaattoouussaa;; aa rruurraall ssiittee iinn ssoouutthh eeaasstteerrnn CCyypprruuss;;
22vv
Title main entry. Ed. by L. Wriedt Sørensen and K. Winther Jacobsen.
(Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens; v.6)
Aarhus University Press, ©2006 436 p. $70.00
The result of excavations by the U. of Copenhagen (Denmark) Institute of
Archaeology and Ethnology in the 1990s, this 2v. work offers a valuable
addition to the relatively new field of rural archaeology, with chapters on
sculpture and tombs extending into the realm of art history. The site
dates from Hellenistic and Roman times. Chapters detail the ground
stone industry and architecture there, with separate chapters devoted to
the survey and discussion of Iron Age pottery, ceramic fine wares,
cooking wares, utility amphorae, lamps, terracotta figurines, glass, coins,
and roof tiles. Heavily illustrated with drawings and photos, including
some color photos. Not indexed. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Co.
Art Book News Annual 2008 –20–
DS66 978-87-7602-073-6
HHaammaa;; ffoouuiilllleess eett rreecchheerrcchheess,, 11993311 11993388;; II 22:: BBrroonnzzee AAggee
ggrraavveess iinn HHaammaa aanndd iittss nneeiigghhbboouurrhhoooodd

Riis, P.J. and Marie-Louise Buhl. (Monographs of the National Museum
XIV)
Aarhus University Press, ©2007 115 p. $40.00 (pa)
This oversized volume (10x13.25″) presents in full the excavation report
made in the 1930s but never published. The account includes drawings
and b&w photos of the site and its finds. The text includes detailed
descriptions of the placement of the graves and of the finds. A separate
section of plates presents the photos and drawings of the ceramics.
Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DS69 978-1-84217-272-8
EEuupphhrraatteess RRiivveerr VVaalllleeyy sseettttlleemmeenntt;; tthhee CCaarrcchheemmiisshh sseeccttoorr
iinn tthhee tthhiirrdd mmiilllleennnniiuumm BBCC
Title main entry. Ed. by Edgar Peltenburg.
Oxbow Books, ©2007 285 p. $120.00
It was densely populated in its time, about 5,000 years ago, but it is
archeologically inaccessible. Carchemish was one of the great capital
cities of the ancient Near East, but most of our information about it
comes from rescue excavations (conducted upon the building of new
dams) which revealed ceremonial monuments, mortuary evidence, for-
tified settlements and temples as well as material in Carchemish hinter-
lands, pastoral nomads, ranked societies and state formation. The 18
papers here include overviews of regional dimensions, including evi-
dence of geopolitics and social-cultural identity, settlements of the middle
Euphrates and Sajur River basins, including evidence from mounds
about Bronze age life and on rulers from terraces, and material culture
in its broader context, including the evidence from metal artifacts,
sealing practices, ceramics, luxury wares and the place of fruit stands in
Bronze Age cultural life. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
DS69 2006-038464 978-0-87081-867-7

RReettuurrnn ttoo BBaabbyylloonn;; ttrraavveelleerrss,, aarrcchhaaeeoollooggiissttss,, aanndd
mmoonnuummeennttss iinn MMeessooppoottaammiiaa,, rreevv eedd
Fagan, Brian M.
U. Press of Colorado, ©2007 386 p. $19.95 (pa)
Recent archaeological catastrophes in Iraq inspired Fagan to update and
re-issue his 1979 history of archaeological exploration in Mesopotamia,
which had long been out of print. He was pleased to discover that his
original narrative framework still worked, so he could plug in new infor-
mation where appropriate. A final chapter documents the ongoing
destruction of national and world treasures.
DS94 978-0-7156-3570-4
EEaarrllyy IIssllaammiicc SSyyrriiaa;; aann aarrcchhaaeeoollooggiiccaall aasssseessssmmeenntt
Walmsley, Alan. (Duckworth debates in archaeology)
Duckworth, ©2007 176 p. $22.00 (pa)
Walmsley (Islamic archaeology and art, Carsten Niebuhr Institute, U. of
Copenhagen, Denmark) summarizes the current issues and knowledge of
the early Islamic era of Syria-Palestine (defined as the current areas of
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and a small
part of southern Turkey). He takes a two-pronged approach to the
subject, presenting a chronological examination of socio- economic con-
ditions in the first 50 years before the Islamic expansion and an issue-
based treatment of such questions as material culture and settlement
profiles.
DS99 978-2-503-52289-0
AAllllttaagg uunndd GGeesseellllsscchhaafftt zzuurr SSppäättbbrroonnzzeezzeeiitt;; eeiinnee FFaallllssttuuddiiee
aauuss TTaallll BBaazzii ((SSyyrriieenn))
Otto, Adelheid. (Subartu; 19)
Brepols Publishers, ©2006 332 p. $121.00 (pa)
First presented in longer form as her Habilitationsschrift (in 2004, from
the Ludwig-Maximilians U. in Munich, Germany), Otto’s study describes

at length the typical house of this unusually well- preserved Late Bronze
Age settlement, located in Syria. She then extrapolates from the copious
finds and 50 excavated houses to describe the main elements of daily life.
The volume, which is oversized (8.25x11.75″), is in German with an
English and an Arabic summary. There is an extensive bibliography, but
no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DS99 978-2-503-52291-3
TTeellll ‘‘AAcchhaarrnneehh 11999988 22000044;; pprreelliimmiinnaarryy rreeppoorrttss oonn
eexxccaavvaattiioonn ccaammppaaiiggnnss aanndd ssttuuddyy sseeaassoonn
Title main entry. Ed. by Michel Fortin. (Subartu; v.18)
Brepols Publishers, ©2006 257 p. $89.00 (pa)
Archaeologists report preliminary findings from ongoing excavations at
a site in Syria with material from periods ranging from Sargon II of
Assyria to medieval and later. The introductory matter and the yearly
reports 1998-2002 are in French. Other topics include the Kingdom of
Hamath, typological and technical aspects of pottery, and coins.
Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
DS99 978-2-503-51812-1
TTeellll BBeeyyddaarr;; tthhee 22000000 22000022 sseeaassoonnss ooff eexxccaavvaattiioonnss,, tthhee
22000033 22000044 sseeaassoonnss ooff aarrcchhiitteeccttuurraall rreessttoorraattiioonn,, aa
pprreelliimmiinnaarryy rreeppoorrtt
Title main entry. Ed. by Marc Lebeau and Antoine Suleiman. (Subartu;
15)
Brepols Publishers, ©2007 309 p. $124.00 (pa)
The third volume about the Euro-Syrian archaeological project at the
ancient city of Nabada reports on the 2000-02 excavations and the 2003-
04 architectural restoration. About a third of the text, including the intro-
duction, are in French. The monochrome photographs are of particularly
high quality. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Co.

DS110 2005-045576 90-04-12626-0
EExxccaavvaattiioonnss aatt SSeepppphhoorriiss;; vv 11
Strange, James F. et al. (The Brill reference library of Judaism; v.22)
BRILL, ©2006 170 p. $188.00
Strange (religious studies, U. of South Florida), Lonhstaff (emeritus, reli-
gious studies, Colby College), and Groh (humanities and archaeology,
Illinois Wesleyan U.) present the first volume of a multi-volume work
reporting on archaeological investigations into the ancient Galilean city
of Sepphoris. It first reviews the ancient literary sources about Sepphoris
and the progress of the investigations in the 1980s. It then describes the
findings regarding the tower (or citadel) and the villa (thought to be a
church or basilica in the 1930s). It also incorporates details of coins,
pottery, and other small finds.
DS110 2006-022613 0-89757-072-3
TTeell TTaannnniinniimm;; eexxccaavvaattiioonnss aatt KKrrookkooddeeiilloonn PPoolliiss,, 11999966
11999999
Stieglitz, R. Robert. (American schools of oriental research archeological
reports; v.10)
Am.Schools / Oriental Research, ©2006 255 p. $84.95
Tel Tanninim, Crocodiles Mound, is the modern Hebrew name for the
Arabic site Tell el-Melat, Mortar Mound, on the east coast of the
Mediterranean about 4.25 kilometers north of Caesarea. Stieglitz and col-
leagues describe the geography and hydrography of the site; the four-year
excavation project they conducted; and finds dating to the Iron Age,
Byzantine, and later periods. Distributed by The David Brown Book Co.
DS111 0-86159-161-5
AA rreesseeaarrcchheerr’’ss gguuiiddee ttoo tthhee LLaacchhiisshh ccoolllleeccttiioonn iinn tthhee
BBrriittiisshh MMuusseeuumm
Magrill, Pamela. (BMP Research Paper; 161)
The British Museum Press, ©2006 201 p. $46.00 (pa)

In 1980, the British Museum acquired from the University of London a
collection of over 17,000 objects and documents from the British exca-
vation at Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem, during the 1930s. Magrill,
curator of the collection, spent the 1990s sorting, researching, and cata-
loging the artifacts into the Museum’s database. When she finished in
2000, she realized that she could now compile a handlist of the entire
collection for the benefit of researchers. And so she has. She covers the
cemeteries, the fosse temple and related contexts, the tell and fortifica-
tions, the sections, and surface and unprovenanced artifacts. A battery of
indexes facilitates entry. Distributed in North America by The David
Brown Book Co.
Art Book News Annual 2008–21–
HHIISSTTOORRYY ((ccoonnttiinnuueedd))
DS117 978-1-905299-28-7
GGhhaassssaann rreessuurrrreecctteedd
Zahran, Yasmine.
Stacey International, ©2006 180 p. $37.00
A Palestinian-born archaeologist trained in the US and France, Zahran
here completes her quartet on pre-Islamic Arabs by looking at the
kingdom of Ghassan, the last Arab supremacy before Islam. During the
sixth century, she explains, the kingdom was a strong ally of Rome,
holding the Persians at bay, thus allowing the Empire to slaughter bar-
barians out west. It was through Ghassan that Arabs learned about the
European world, and its federation of tribes was the first step to Arab
unity. Though six historical figures narrate, she says this is not fiction-
alized history, but based on ancient and modern sources, inscriptions,
archaeological finds, and oral traditions. (She also writes fiction, so there
might be some confusion.) Distributed in North America by the David
Brown Book Co.
DS156 978-975-8293-80-3

AAmmoorriiuumm;; aa BByyzzaannttiinnee cciittyy iinn AAnnaattoolliiaa
Lightfoot, Chris and Mücahide Lightfoot. (Homer archaeological guides;
5)
Homer Kitabevi, ©2007 180 p. $36.00 (pa)
The tombs remain, of course, but so do pieces of the coffee cups, paving
stones of churches, even some of the dwellings. Amorium prospered
from Roman times through the Byzantine era. It was subsumed in the
invasion of the Ottoman Turks and in essence disappeared from the
Western world. Much was thought lost to modernity until it was redis-
covered in 1836 and excavated beginning in the late 1980s. This unique
treatment of what has become a very important archeological find takes
readers on a sort of travel guide, with the term “travel” expanded to
include not only space but time. With fold-out maps, color illustrations
and accessible text this gives the history of Amorium, the fruits of its
archeological sites and excavations, an analysis of the Amorian dynasty,
and a very good bibliography. Distributed in North America by The
David Brown Book Co.
DS156 978-1-902937-27-4
EExxccaavvaattiinngg CCaattaallhhööyyüükk;; SSoouutthh,, NNoorrtthh aanndd KKOOPPAALL aarreeaa
rreeppoorrttss ffrroomm tthhee 11999955 9999 sseeaassoonnss ((CCDD RROOMM iinncclluuddeedd))
Members of the Catalhöyük Teams. Ed. by Ian Hodder. (Catalhöyük
research project; v.3: BIAA monograph no.37)
McDonald Inst./Archaeol. Res., ©2007 588 p. $138.00
Jointly published by the British Institute at Ankara and the McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research, this is the third in a projected six
volumes of reports documenting the excavations carried out by 130
archaeologists in several teams at the site from 1995-1999. Published in
an oversized format (8.75x11.25″), the essays document the excavations in
the South and North areas of the East Mound and the KOPAL (Konya
Basin Palaeoenvironments Project) and are well illustrated with photos,

drawings, tables, and plans. Two introductory chapters introduce the site
and present a full summary of the excavation results (by Hodder, who is
in the department of cultural and social anthropology at Stanford U.,
California). The CD-ROM contains videos of the site and its features.
There is a list of references, but no index. Distributed in North America
by The David Brown Book Co.
DS289 2006-049041 978-90-04-15083-6
BBeeyyoonndd tthhee lleeggaaccyy ooff GGeenngghhiiss KKhhaann
Title main entry. Ed. by Linda Komaroff. (Islamic history and civi-
lization. Studies and texts; v.64)
BRILL, ©2006 652 p. $129.00
Taken from a symposium in June 2003, these 23 papers analyze the
impact of the cultural, social, religious and political changes wrought by
Genghis Khan’s invasion of western and eastern Asia in the early thir-
teenth century. Topics on culture and commerce in the Mongol world
empire include cultural transmissions, diplomatic gifts, luxury goods,
maritime trade, and political culture; those on the lifestyles at the courts
of the ruling elite include interpretations of excavations, traditions, and
survival; those on the art of the book describe the workings of a scrip-
torium, the intellectual implications of frontispieces, and legacies; those
ion th arts and artistic interchange include paper, pottery, poetry and
motifs; and those on religion examine patronage of astrologers, Islamic
conversion, religious diversity and the Mongol legacy of dynastic legit-
imacy. The color and monochrome plates are well-chosen.
DS408 2006310842 978-1-84560-017-4
IInnddiiaa tthheenn aanndd nnooww
Mukerjee, Rudrangshu and Vir Sanghvi.
Mercury Books, ©2006 274 p. $60.00
The “now” side of this oversized photo essay (12.25x12.25″) contains color
photos of contemporary sites and scenes through many regions of India,

including famous cities, events, and regional costumes. Flipped over, the
“then” side of the book contains 19th- century photographs of India,
including some fold-out panoramas of cities, sites, or festivals. The
content of the captions is designed to promote the wonder of India rather
than provide critical or historic information. Distributed in the US by
International Publishers Marketing.
DS451 978-90-04-15451-3
OOnn tthhee ccuusspp ooff aann eerraa;; aarrtt iinn tthhee pprree KKuussaannaa wwoorrlldd
Title main entry. Ed. by Doris Meth Srinivasan.
BRILL, ©2007 402 p. $228.00
No book has been produced before on pre-Kusana art, and Srinivasan
(State U. of New York-Stony Brook) attributes that to the fact that no full-
length study has been done of Kusana art—as opposed to art done during
the Kusana period—that pre-Kusana art would have preceded.
Contributors identified only by name take the plunge anyway, discussing
general features and specific examples of art in South Asia about the
beginning of the Christian era. Their topics include Saka and Kusana
migrations in historical contexts, an Indo-Greek urban center in
Gandhara, coinage from Iran to Gandhara, and multi-cultural systems in
ancient India.
DS625 2006-022942 978-0-313-33339-2
CCuullttuurree aanndd ccuussttoommss ooff IInnddoonneessiiaa
Forshee, Jill. (Culture and customs of Asia)
Greenwood Press, ©2006 237 p. $49.95
For students and general readers, Forshee (cultural anthropology, U. of
California, Berkeley) describes the culture and customs of Indonesia,
with specific emphasis on common people. Background is given on the
land, people, and the country’s history; religion; past and modern liter-
ature and art; architecture and housing; cuisine and dress; gender,
courtship, and marriage traditions; festivals and leisure activities; music,

dance, and theater; and social customs and lifestyle. Attention is given to
all the islands, not just Bali and Java.
DS632 2006-008332 978-0-8248-3072-4
AArrtt aass ppoolliittiiccss;; rree ccrraaffttiinngg iiddeennttiittiieess,, ttoouurriissmm,, aanndd ppoowweerr
iinn TTaannaa TToorraajjaa,, IInnddoonneessiiaa
Adams, Kathleen M. (Southeast Asia; politics, meaning, and memory)
U. of Hawai’i Pr., ©2006 286 p. $25.00 (pa)
Adams (anthropology, Loyola U., Chicago) was intrigued by the death
cults of the Sa’dan Toraja people, a Christian enclave in the mountains
of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, a predominantly Muslin nation. She soon
discovered that a lot of other people were too, and the place was already
crawling with Western anthropologists and tourists. So she decided to
study the impact of Christian conversion, modernization, and tourism on
their art, religion, politics, and other cultural traits.
DS721 2006-052861 978-0-89236-869-3
CChhiinnaa oonn ppaappeerr;; EEuurrooppeeaann aanndd CChhiinneessee wwoorrkkss ffrroomm tthhee
llaattee ssiixxtteeeenntthh ttoo tthhee eeaarrllyy nniinneetteeeenntthh cceennttuurryy
Title main entry. Ed. by Marcia Reed and Paola Dematté.
Getty Publications, ©2007 235 p. $45.00
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Getty Research
Institute in 2007-2008, this oversized catalog (8.75x11.25″) is filled with
color and b&w plates of prints, paintings, and other objects produced in
China and Europe that demonstrate the notions each culture had of the
other. Several essays (three by Dematté) describe salient questions,
including reception of Christianity, Chinese and European science, and
European views of Chinese culture and history. Lengthy catalog entries
accompany full-page plates of 37 works. Dematté teaches the history of
Chinese art at the Rhode Island School of Design; Reed is with the Getty
Research Institute.
Art Book News Annual 2008 –22–

DS727 2007-009706 978-1-85109-582-7
PPoopp ccuullttuurree CChhiinnaa!!;; mmeeddiiaa,, aarrttss,, aanndd lliiffeessttyyllee
Latham, Kevin. (Popular culture in the contemporary world)
ABC-CLIO, ©2007 384 p. $85.00
For students, travelers, and other readers, this volume introduces the dif-
ferent aspects of Chinese popular culture, with a focus on trends that
have occurred mostly since the 1970s. Latham (anthropology and soci-
ology, U. of London, UK) provides historical and cultural background and
discusses contemporary practices in mass media, television, radio, news-
papers, magazines, film, the internet and telecommunications, leisure
time, sports and martial arts, theatre, and popular music. These chapters
are preceded by discussion of Chinese history, its political territories, and
language.
DS727 2007-320492 978-962-209-797-1
RReeaaddiinngg CChhiinneessee ttrraannssnnaattiioonnaalliissmmss;; ssoocciieettyy,, lliitteerraattuurree,,
ffiillmm
Title main entry. Ed. by Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden.
Hong Kong University Pr., ©2006 238 p. $24.95 (pa)
Exploring the imaginary communities of modernity and the emanci-
pation of leaving one’s country behind, the contributors of these 12
essays go beyond postcolonialism and consider some of the concepts of
Athwa Ong about history and lived cultural experience. Their topics
include transnationalism in Hokkien-Philippines families from 1949 to
1975, diasporic agency as expressed in the Chinese Canadian restaurant
menu, displacement in trans-East Asian literature, cultural and culinary
ambivalence in the works of Sara Chin, Evelina Galang and Yoko
Tawada, intertextuality and cultural dialog in Tripmaster Monkey, clari-
fication of overseas Chinese literature, selling a hybridized culture on
film, reading sexuality into Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and Chay
Yew’s Porcelin January Lim, the cinema of Tsai Ming-lang as a modernist

genealogy, and the uses of the everyday as a form of sentimental return.
Distributed by the U. of Washington Press.
DS753 2006-024694 978-0-8248-3149-3
EEmmppiirree ooff ggrreeaatt bbrriigghhttnneessss;; vviissuuaall aanndd mmaatteerriiaall ccuullttuurreess
ooff MMiinngg CChhiinnaa,, 11336688 11664444
Clunas, Craig.
U. of Hawai’i Pr., ©2007 288 p. $59.00
Clunas (Chinese and East Asian Art, SOAS, London) finds that along
with the exquisite material culture of the Ming period came a golden age
of drama and literature that took full advantage of the thriving printing
industry. China of the Ming dynasty appeared to have it all, including
intelligence and good looks, but it tended to be shallow and modish, was
ruled by an unworthy elite, and had begun to discern the contempt with
which it was beheld by the West. Clunas examines the underside of this
complex culture, including differences in interpretation of human agency,
differing cultures for direction and movement, cultures of text and
orality, intellectual life, pleasure and play, excess, the underlying culture
of violence, aging and death, and the influence of the remnant culture
of the Ming.
DS786 978-90-04-15520-6
DDiissccoovveerriieess iinn wweesstteerrnn TTiibbeett aanndd tthhee wweesstteerrnn HHiimmaallaayyaass;;
eessssaayyss oonn hhiissttoorryy,, lliitteerraattuurree,, aarrcchhaaeeoollooggyy aanndd aarrtt;;
pprroocceeeeddiinnggss
Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (PIATS
2003) (2003, Oxford, the UK) Ed. by Amy Heller and Giacomella
Orofino. (Brill’s Tibetan studies library; v.10/8)
BRILL, ©2007 240 p. $93.00
Mnga’ris skor gsum and adjacent regions were integrated into the zone
of the Tibetan empire since the seventh century, but their geography led
over time to distinct patterns of trade and cross-influence with the

polities of central Asia, Nepal, and India. The panel was called in order
to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of these regions.
Not only did the topics include political history, religious and secular art,
architecture, and literature produced in or for western Tibet and the
western Himalayas, but the temporal range considered turned out to
stretch from the Zhang zhung period to the late 20th century. No index
is provided.
DS793 2005-024390 978-0-295-98543-5
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Title main entry. Trans. by David Deal and Laura Hostetler. (Studies on
ethnic groups in China)
U. of Washington Press, ©2006 178 p. $40.00
During the 18th century, Qing China (1636-1911) was expanding south
into areas where non-Chinese people lived, and books with pictures and
descriptions of these exotic people, Miao albums, were compiled probably
by minor officials in the administration the territories. Historians Deal
(1939-2001) (Whitman College) and Hostetler (U. of Illinois-Chicago)
reproduce and translate one such album, anonymous and untitled as
most are, from sometime after 1797. It identifies 82 different ethnic
groups residing in Guizhou, with a hand-painted illustration, textual
description, and poem devoted to each.
DS796 2007-010395 978-0-8248-3081-6
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Des Forges, Alexander. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
U. of Hawai’i Pr., ©2007 278 p. $55.00
According to Des Forges (Chinese, U. of Massachusetts), there are four
narrative tropes that constitute the conceptual foundation on which the
social reality of the Chinese city of Shanghai is built: “(1) simultaneity;
different things happening at the same time; (2) interruption: breaks in

continuity; (3) mediation; a position between two sides that defines those
sides as internally coherent and mutually exclusive entities; and (4)
excess: the drive to expand without limit and consume without end.” He
examines the literary and visual dimensions of these narrative tropes as
they developed in the genre of installment fiction set in Shanghai from
the 1890s to the 1930s, arguing that they supply the imagery that defines
the city and, more importantly, the very forms through with the city
could be experienced as a business and entertainment center.
DS855 2006-035363 978-0-8248-3035-9
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Kidder, J. Edward.
U. of Hawai’i Pr., ©2007 401 p. $60.00
Japanese history alludes to a polity traditionally called Yamatai, ruled by
a woman known today as Himiko, who ruled her own people and those
of about 30 other chiefdoms through magic, and became known to the
Chinese in 238 when she initiated emmissarial exchanges with the Wei
court. Kidder (emeritus Japanese, International Christian U., Tokyo)
explores the mystery of the kingdom and its ruler, drawing on extensive
archaeological work that has been conducted since World War II.
DS856 2006-024714 978-0-8248-3013-7
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Title main entry. Ed. by Mikael Adolphson et al.
U. of Hawai’i Pr., ©2007 450 p. $50.00
Mostly American scholars of Japanese history and culture offer new
approaches to and interpretations of the first three centuries of the Heian
period, 794-1086, focusing on the real or imagined configurations of
centers and peripheries along a number of dimensions, including pol-
itics, literature and the arts, religion, domestic life, and the Asian world.
The 15 essays are from a June 2002 conference at Harvard University.

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Adés, Harry. (Traveller’s histories)
Interlink Publishing Group, ©2007 452 p. $14.95 (pa)
Aimed at students and tourists visiting Egypt, this volume offers a
concise summary of the sweep of Egyptian history from the first evi-
dence of human habitation to contemporary times. The chronological rise
and fall of kingdoms and governments constitutes most of the discussion,
but some explorations of arts, literature, and the lives of ordinary
Egyptians are interspersed throughout. Also included are appendixes
listing pharaohs and heads of governments, as well as a chronology.
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