Yale University Press

Book Reviews

• Before Religion (Brent Nongbri)
  A History of a Modern Concept
• *The Book in the Renaissance (Andrew Pettegree)
  - in religion, politics, news, science, education, ...
• *The Climate Casino (William Nordhaus)
  Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
• *Earthly Necessities (Keith Wrightson)
  Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
• The First Urban Christians (Wayne A. Meeks)
  The Social World of the Apostle Paul
• *The Glatstein Chronicles (Jacob Glatstein)
  - an American Yiddish poet visits Poland in 1934
• Going to Church in Medieval England (Nicholas Orme)
  - parish churches: people, practices, paraphernalia, ...
• *Iran: A Modern History (Abbas Amanat)
  - from the Safavids to the Islamic Revolution
• *The Market System (Charles E. Lindblom)
  What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
• The Moral Economy (Samuel Bowles)
  Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens
• *The Passage to Europe (Luuk Van Middelaar)
  How a Continent Became a Union
• Scots & Catalans (J.H. Elliott)
  - a history of two nations within states
• Siberia: A History of the People (Janet M. Hartley)
  - settlers and soldiers; exiles and explorers
• *Trying Neaira (Debra Hamel)
  The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
• Vietnam: A Natural History (Sterling, Hurley, Minh)
  - biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
• **Weapons of the Weak (James C. Scott)
  Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
• A Worldly Art (Mariët Westermann)
  The Dutch Republic 1585-1718