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Collected Essays These volumes, recently received in the AHR office, do not lend themselves readily to unified reviews; the contents are therefore listed. COMPARATIVE/WORLD ANNA AKASOY, CHARLES BURNETT, and RONIT YOELITLALIM, editors. Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2011. Pp. xiv, 391. $134.95. RONIT YOELI-TLALIM, Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions. ANNA AKASOY, Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography: A Survey of Arabic and Persian Sources. KEVIN VAN BLADEL, The Bactrian Background of the Barmakids. ASSADULLAH SOUREN MELIKIAN-CHIRVANI, Iran to Tibet. DAN MARTIN, Greek and Islamic Medicines’ Historical Contact with Tibet: A Reassessment in View of Recently Available but Relatively Early Sources on Tibetan Medical Eclecticism. ANYA KING, Tibetan Musk and Medieval Arab Perfumery. CHRISTOPHER I. BECKWITH, The Sarva stiva din Buddhist Scholastic Method in Medieval Islam. PETER ZIEME, Notes on the Religions in the Mongol Empire. PAUL D. BUELL, Tibetans, Mongols and the Fusion of Eurasian Cultures. AREZOU AZAD, Three Rock-Cut Cave Sites in Iran and Their Ilkhanid Buddhist Aspects Reconsidered. GEORGIOS T. HALKIAS, The Muslim Queens of the Himalayas: Princess Exchanges in Baltistan and Ladakh. MARC GABORIEAU, The Discovery of the Muslims of Tibet by the First Portuguese Missionaries. ALEXANDRE PAPAS, So Close to Samarkand, Lhasa: Sufi Hagiographies, Founder Myths and Sacred Space in Himalayan Islam. THIERRY ZARCONE, Between Legend and History: About the “Conversion” to Islam of Two Prominent Lamaists in the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries. JOHAN ELVERSKOG, Ritual Theory across the Buddhist-Muslim Divide in Late Imperial China. JOHN BRAY, Trader, Middleman or Spy? The Dilemmas of a Kashmiri Muslim in Early Nineteenth-Century Tibet. DIANA ALTNER, Do All the Muslims of Tibet Belong to the Hui Nationality? JAN MAGNUSSON, Greater Ladakh and the Mobilization of Tradition in the Contemporary Baltistan Movement. JENNIFER D. KEENE and MICHAEL S. NIEBERG, editors. Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies. (History of Warfare, number 62.) Leiden: Brill. 2011. Pp. xx, 338. $179.00. ROGER CHICKERING, Why Are We Still Interested in This Old War? TIM COOK, Black-hearted Traitors, Crucified Martyrs, and the Leaning Virgin: The Role of Rumor and the Great War Canadian Soldier. LAURA ROWE, “Their Lordships Regret That . . . ”: Admiralty Perceptions of and Responses to Allegations of Lower Deck Disquiet. SANTANU DAS, Imperialism, Nationalism and the First World War in India. BRIAN K. FELTMAN, Letters from Captivity: The First World War Correspondence of the German Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom. JESSE KAUFFMAN, Schools, State-Building, and National Conflict in German-Occupied Poland, 1915–1918. BRANDON LITTLE, Humanitarian Relief in Europe and the Analogue of War, 1914 –1918. DAVID T. ZABECKI, Railroads and the Operational Level of War in the German 1918 Offensives. ELIZABETH GREENHALGH, Liaisons Not So Dangerous: First World War Liaison Officers and Marshal Ferdinand Foch. MARK E. GROTELEUSCHEN, The Junior Partner: Anglo-American Military Cooperation in World War I. GEARÓID BARRY, “The Crusade of Youth”: Pacifism and the Militarization of Youth Culture in Marc Sangnier’s Peace Congresses. HEATHER R. PERRY, Militarizing the Disabled: Medicine, Industry, and “Total Mobilization” in World War I Germany. JULIA EICHENBERG, “Suspicious Pacifists”: The Dilemma of Polish Veterans Fighting War during the 1920s and 1930s. ASIA SHELDON POLLOCK, editor. Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. 376. Cloth $89.95, paper $24.95. SHELDON POLLOCK, The Languages of Science in Early Modern India. SUMIT GUHA, Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300–1800. VELCHERU NARAYANA RAO, DAVID SHULMAN, and SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara. ALLISON BUSCH, The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi Rıti Tradition. IMRE BANGA, Writing Devotion: The Dynamics of Textual Transmission in the Kavita valı of Tulsıda s. FRANÇOISE MALLISON, the Teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic Poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbha sខ a Pa ខthśa la (1749–1948). MUZAFFAR ALAM and SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, The Making of A Munshı. ADITYA BEHL, Pages from the Book of Religions: Encountering Difference in Mughal India. SUNIL SHARMA, “If There Is a Paradise on Earth, It Is Here”: Urban Ethnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and Historical Texts. MOHAMAD TAVAKOLITARGHI, Early Persianate Modernity. KURTIS R. SCHAEFFER, New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650–1700. JANET GYATSO, Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan 917