Articles

Thomas T. Allsen

Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples in the Mongol Empire

James R. Farr

On the Shop Floor: Guilds, Articans, and the European Market Economy, 1350-1750

Antony Black

Decolonization of Concepts

Book Review Section

Review Articles:

E. L. Jones

Capitalism: One Origin or Two?

Peter Burke

New Cultural Histories

Ira M. Lapidus

Re-thinking World History

Books Reviewed:

• Brummet, Palmira, Ottoman seapower and Levantine diplomacy in the age of discovery (New York, 1994). Geoffrey Parker

• Proshnev, Boris Fedorovich, Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War, 1630-1635, ed. Paul Dukes, trans. Brian Pearce (Cambridge, 1995). Robert I. Frost

• Saito, Yoshiyuki, The Utsumi-bune and the Dismantlement of the Bakuhan Market (Tokyo, 1994). Fukaya Katsumi