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A review of the book "The Middleton Papers: The Financial Problems of a Yorkshire Recusant Family in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," which is part of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series Volume CLXI for the year 2009, edited by José Bosworth, Pat Hudson, Maureen Johnson and Denise Shillitoe is presented.

The article reviews the book "Life in medieval landscapes. People and places in the middle ages: papers in memory of H. S. A. Fox," edited by Sam Turner and Bob Silvester.

The article reviews the book "The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880-2000," by Thomas A. Stapleford.

The article reviews the book "Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis," edited by Cathryn Carson, Alexei Kojevnikov, and Helmuth Trischler.

The article reviews the book "Foundation Papers in Landscape Ecology," by John A. Wiens, Michael R. Moss, Monica G. Turner, and David J. Mladenoff.

Reviews the books "La France et L'Esprit de 76; Colloque du Bicentenaire de L' Indéependance des Etats-Unis," edited by Daniel Royot and "Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790," VOL. II: April 10, 1776-March 20, 1780," edited by Stanley Idzerda.

Reviews the book "Britain and the Netherlands," vol. 4, "Metropolis, Dominion and Province: Papers Delivered to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference," edited by J.S. Bromley and E.H. Kossmann.

Reviews the book `The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1988,' edited by Christopher Harper-Bill and Ruth Harvey.

Reviews the book "Sir Walter Scott and History, With Other papers," by James Anderson.

Reviews the book "Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century," Part II, edited by Norman Davis.

Reviews the book 'The archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania: Papers From the Fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberrs, Australia,' edited by G.R. Clark, A.J. Anderson and T. Vunidilo.

The article reviews the book "Fiscal Systems in the European Economy From the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries," edited by Simonetta Cavaciocchi.

The article reviews the book "Religion and Religious Institutions in the European Economy 1000-1800," edited by Francesco Ammannati.

Reviews the book 'Gladstone Centenary Essays,' edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift.

This article reviews the book "Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-speaking Peoples," edited by Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide.

Reviews the book "Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand," edited by Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan.

A review of the book "The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult," edited by Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn is presented.

Reviews the book 'Histories of Old Ages. essays in Honour of Rhys Jones,' edited by A. Anderson, I. Lilley and S. O'Connor.

The article reviews the book "Medieval Dublin VII," edited by Seán Duffy.

The article reviews two books including "The Art of Ecology: Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson," edited by David K. Skelly, David M. Post, and Melinda D. Smith and "G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology," by Nancy G. Slack.

Reviews the book "The Slovenes and Yugoslavism, 1890-1914," by Carole Rogel.

ABSTRACT The recent facsimile edition of Henricus Glareanus's Chronology of Livy, prepared by Anthony T. Grafton and Urs B. Leu, provides access to a primary source that is unique from the point of view of the history of science and scholarship and of the book and reading. The basis of the edition, a copy of Chronologia annotated by Glareanus's disciple Gabriel Hummelberg II, now preserved at the Princeton University Library, serves scholars both as a point of departure for outlining hypotheses on the teaching methods of early modern humanists as well as the role of chronology in the humanist curriculum. My reading of their edition is based on three points. First, I put the primary source of their choice in a context that includes provincial early modern educational centers as I believe that their enterprise could clear the way for future narratives on forgotten scholars who dealt with the issues of technical chronology. Second, I show the importance of Grafton and Leu's thesis on the procedures of transmission of teachers' commentary, which, according to them, is documented by the Princeton copy of Chronologia. Third, I argue that the seemingly conservative decision to publish a paper edition of an annotated volume at the moment when state-of-the-art digital tools for such editions are being tailored through the alliance of scholars and IT specialists should open a discussion among historians of the book and reading, science, and education that would lead to the determination of standards for scholarly editions of libri annotati. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that Piketty's book should not simply be seen as that of an economist, but that it contains significant resources for sociologists to draw upon. These are firstly, this approach to social science and his use of visualizations which chime closely with recent claims about the power of description. Secondly I consider his conceptualization of time and history - which in rebutting epochal arguments about the speed of contemporary change allows for a much better appreciation of the 'long durée'; and finally his conceptualization of social classes and privilege through his elaboration of a sociology of accumulation and inheritance. In all these ways, Piketty's work assists in developing an account of elites and wealth which should be highly productive for future sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca.1300–1800)," edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray.

Reviews the book 'Le Pacifique de 5000 á 2000 avant le présent: Suppléments á l'histoire d'une colonisation/The Pacific from 5000 to 2000 BP: Colonisation and transformations,' edited by Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Ian Lilley.

Reviews the book "Historical Studies, Vol IX," Edited by John G. Barry.

How do we adequately capture multivocal history? What are good ways to represent multiple narratives and arguments in an open‐ended fashion? The online publication Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep‐Mapping Modern East Asian History, edited by David R. Ambaras and Kate McDonald, addresses these questions for modern East Asian spatial history. Mainly a tool for teaching and research, the website works by interlinking historiographical information and primary sources. Complementarily, Bodies and Structures 2.0 displays all its contents via a set of visualizations. In this review essay, I argue that this multimodal format is innovative on two ends. First, the site convincingly implements what earlier research on hypertext and visualization has long sought—namely, to exceed traditional text and its limitations to represent intricate matters neatly. This is because of these media formats' semiotic efficiency in analytically representing complex wholes and their parts. Second, Bodies and Structures 2.0 successfully translates its multivocal concept of spatial history into an interactive multimodal user experience. All in all, it demonstrates that representing concepts is not just about the applied language of narrative and argumentation; it is also about the publication's form. Bodies and Structures 2.0, therefore, is an exciting work from the perspective of theory of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews the book "India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents From the Cairo Geniza (India Book)," by Shelomo D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman.

The article reviews the book "Little Malvern Letters, I: 1482–1737," edited by Aileen M. Hodgson and Michael Hodgetts, number 83 in the Catholic Record Society book series.

The article reviews the book "Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology: Value, Theory and Evidence in Historical Sciences: Max Weber, Karl Polanyi and Moses Finley," by Mohammad Nafissi.

Books reviewed: Finnis, J.Aquinas Rozemond, M. Descartes’s Dualism Livingston, D. Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium Langton, R. Kantian Humility Houlgate, S. (ed.) Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature Kemal, S. et al. (eds.) Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts Ridley, A. Nietzsche’s Conscience [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'The Rural Settlements of Medieval England,' edited by Michael Aston, David Austin and Christopher Dyer.

Reviews the book "The Tweedmakers: A History of the Scottish Fancy Woollen Industry 1600-1914," by Clifford Gulvin.