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In Historical Style, Timothy Campbell argues that the eighteenth-century fashion press shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past and a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.

Alexander reviews A MODERN HISTORY OF JAPAN: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon.

The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organised and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires, also edited by James Tracy, which dealt with changes in the growth and composition of long-distance trade during the same period

The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism, edited by Torkel Brekke. New York:Oxford University Press, 2019. xi + 317 pp., £73 (hb). ISBN 9780198790839.

A central issue in the study of the correlation between modernity, the turn to the religious subject and the history of mysticism, concerns the critical ? some would argue ?subversive? ? character and practice of mysticism and spirituality. Is this critical practice merely the resistance effect of the modern pastoral investment in the subject? Or is there something distinctive in mysticism and spirituality that draws it strength from various sources - knowledge, experience, desire or perhaps even one?s body ? and operates from a specific position or ?locus?? This volume explores these questions with the aim of developing a theory of critical spirituality, that is to say, of its historical appearances and its contemporary forms and characteristics

Pt. 1: Demographic history of an archipelago. Doeppers, D. F. ; Xenos, P.: A demographic frame for Philippine history. - S. 1-16. Newson, L. A.: Old world diseases in the early colonial Philippines and Spanish America. - S. 17-36. Pt. 2: Dynamic regions. Xenos, P.: The Ilocos coast since 1800. Population pressure, the Ilocano diaspora, and multiphasic response. - S. 39-70. Cullinane, M. ; Xenos, P.: The growth of population in Cebu during the Spanish era. Constructing a regional demography from local sources. - S. 71-138. Doeppers, D. F.: Migration to Manila. Changing gender representation, migration field, and urban structure. - S. 139-179. Pt. 3: Changing localities. Xenos, P. ; Ng Shui Meng: Nagcarlan, Laguna. A nineteenth-century parish demography. - S. 183-224. Owen, N. G.: Life, death, and the sacraments in a nineteenth-century Bikol parish. - S. 225-252. Doeppers, D. F.: Migrants in urban labor markets. The social stratification of Tondo and Sampaloc in the 1890s. - S. 253-264. Doeppers, D. F.: Evidence from the grave. The changing social composition of the populations of metropolitan Manila and Molo, Iloilo, during the later nineteenth century. - S. 265-277. Pt. 4: Critical sources, contexts, and methods. Cullinane, M.: Accounting for souls. Ecclesiastical sources for the study of Philippine demographic history. - S. 281-346. Doeppers, D. F.: Civil records as sources for Philippine historical demography. - S. 347-363. Bibliographical section. Gealogo, F. A.: Demography and an autonomous Filipino history. A bibliographic essay. - S. 367-374

The modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide significance. Based upon genuine archival work, the authors of the present book reconstruct the history of the movement from 1900 to 2000. Looking at central episodes in the history of 11 international dialogue organizations, they identify 3 distinct groups that are shaping the movement: individual religious virtuosi, countercultural activists, and representatives of religious institutions.