Journal of Global History

Comparing British and American empires

Women in the Portuguese colonial empire: the theatre of shadows - Edited by Clara Sarmento. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. xxi + 304. Hardback £39.99, ISBN 978-1-84718-718-5.

From Christian anti-imperialism to postcolonial Christianity: M. M. Thomas and the ecumenical theology of communism in the 1940s and 1950s

Fatal misconception: the struggle to control world populationMatthew Connelly. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 521. Hardback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02423-6.

Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present - By Christopher I. Beckwith. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xxv + 472. Hardback £24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.

Empire, colony, genocide: conquest, occupation, and subaltern resistance in world history - By A. Dirk Moses. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. 504. Hardback £47.50, ISBN 978-1-84545-452-4.

Editorial -the theory and practice of ecumenism: Christian global governance and the search for world order, 1900-80

Editorial -Islamic history as global history

Editorial -Commodities, empires, and global history

Drawing the global colour line: white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality - By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp x + 371. Hardback £45.00, ISBN 9780521881180; paperback £

Domesticating the world: African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization By Jeremy Prestholdt. California World History Library 6. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 273. 15 b/w photographs. Hardback £35.00, ISBN

Decolonization and its impact: a comparative approach to the end of the colonial empires By Martin Shipway. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp xi + 269. Paperback £17.99, ISBN 9780631199687; hardback £55.00, ISBN 9780631199670.