American historical review Vol. 114, No. 3 june 2009

In This Issue

Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal
By Sunil S. Amrith


AHR Roundtable: Historians and Biography

David Nasaw
Introduction

Lois W. Banner
Biography as History

Judith M. Brown
“Life Histories” and the History of Modern South Asia

Kate Brown
A Place in Biography for Oneself

Robin Fleming
Writing Biography at the Edge of History

Jochen Hellbeck
Galaxy of Black Stars: The Power of Soviet Biography

Alice Kessler-Harris
Why Biography?

Scene-Setting: Writing Biography in Chinese History
By Susan Mann

Barbara Taylor
Separations of Soul: Solitude, Biography, History

Liana Vardi
Rewriting the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Economists


AHR Forum Simon Schama's A History of Britain

Introduction

Miri Rubin
The BBC's A History of Britain

Linda Levy Peck
Schama's Britannia


Peter Stansky
Simon Schama: A History of Britain


Simon Schama
A History of Britain: A Response

Featured Reviews

James Epstein
Peter Linebaugh. The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All.

Ricardo Padron
Nicolás Wey Gómez. The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies.

Michael Kwass
Jan de Vries. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present.

John A. LynnII
Yuval Noah Harari. The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450–2000.