From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History. By Tariq Rahman. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. xix, 456 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Gayle A. Sulik, Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 402

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 304, £20.00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9780199599035.

Pyrite. A Natural History of Fool's Gold. By David Rickard. Oxford University Press, 2015. Hardback, XIX+297 pages, 4 colour plates. Price GBP 20.49. ISBN 9780190203672.

Almost three centuries have passed since Henckel’s monumental work on pyrite (Henckel, 1725, 1757). The new book by David Rickard, world authority on sulfide chemistry, geochemistry, geomicrobiology, biogeochemistry and ore geology, is a most welcome state-of-the-art report about this humble but fascinating mineral. As stated in the preface, the book targets a popular rather than an academic au...