2004 - 1 (January)

Editorial Foreword

"The War of the Saints": Religion, Politics, and the Poetics of Time in a Sicilian Town

The New Jordanian Hospitality: House, Host, and Guest in the Culture of Public Display

The Cultural Politics of a Traditional Ceremony: Mutomboko and the Performance of History on the Luapula (Zambia)

The Eugenic Temptation in Socialism: Sweden, Germany, and the Soviet Union

Earth History, Natural History, and Prehistory at the Cape, 1860-1875

Peoples, Homelands, and Wars? Ethnicity, the Military, and Battle among British Imperial Forces in the War against Japan

Orphans of Empire: Divided Peoples, Dilemmas of Identity, and Old Imperial Borders in East and Southeast Asia

[The] Transition(s) to Capitalism(s)? A Review Essay {Includes Richard Grassby, The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution; Robert S. Duplessis, Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe; Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe; Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation

Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea

The Angel Out of the House. Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England / Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society

Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology

Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity and Power in the British Mediterranean