Shaikh, Anwar. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 1024 pp.

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...

The Price of Land: Acquisition, Conflict, Consequence by Sanjoy Chakravorty, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013, xxx 273 pp

In contrast to ordinary transactions based on contracts, government land appropriation is an extreme case where the state forcibly and legally takes private ownership of land away from land-rights holders. In the last decade, this has increasingly become a major issue in India. Indeed, media attention on land appropriation cases involving violent actions, such as Nandigram, Kalinganagar, and Si...

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.

Erin Sullivan, Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. ix-227, $100, hardback, ISBN: 9780198739654.

the regional, national and international aspects of prostitution, Stauter-Halsted shows how the international trade in women, then as now, intersected concerns with health, family and personal safety, alongside poverty, unemployment as well as a hostile social environment and deplorable economic conditions at home. In this context, Stauter-Halsted also provides a much needed correction to the p...

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture . New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 475 pp