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A review essay on two books by Piero Camporesi, The Land of Hunger & The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society (both, Cambridge: Polity, 1996 & 1995, respectively), & one by A. J. S. Gibson & T. C. Smout, Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 (England: Cambridge U Press, 1995). These texts examine the relationship between nutrition, food, & quality of life in various sociohistorical contexts. Although Camporesi's The Land of Hunger demonstrates how material conditions affected early-modern Italian popular culture, his analysis of the "theater of poverty" glamorizes the performers' suffering; nevertheless, his analyses of the paradoxical images of hardship & excess as well as how food functioned as a determinant of social class are commended. Camporesi's The Magic Harvest continues the work of his previous text by summarizing the social import of food in early-modern Europe. Finally, Gibson & Smout's examinations of price setting in Scottish burghers, the rise of the potato & oatmeal as primary foodstuffs during the 18th century, & the influence of increased employment opportunities for children & women on real wages are commended. J. W. Parker

What are the percepts of Shari'ah law? What role did Genghis Khan play in Islamic history? How do the teachings of the Qur'an mesh with those of other religious texts? Islamic History is part of a 3 book series. In this powerful, probing, and thought-provoking series, the world of Islam is explored and explained. With coverage from around the world and across the centuries, each book provides a thorough look into the religion with nearly two billion adherents worldwide. Readers will develop a comprehensive understanding of this incredibly rich faith and its contributions to world culture and h

Title page-Respensible History; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I-Irresponsible History; Chapter 1-A Theory of the Abuse of History; Chapter 2-The Dictator's Secret Archives; Chapter 3-Defamation Cases against Historians; Part II-Responsible History; Chapter 4-Duties of the Living to the Dead; Chapter 5-The Rights to Memory and History; Chapter 6-A Code of Ethics for Historians; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Ira Katznelson urges labor historians to respond to a crisis in their field by returning to political, institutional, and state-centered history. This state of affairs has come about, he and others tell us, because of the dual challenge of "new social movements" and then the decline of labor movements, the crisis of social democracy, and collapse of communist states. Labor history is in crisis, he concludes, because class no longer provides the best categories with which to describe the world and the working class is no longer the principal historical actor.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December -- Postscript -- References -- Index.