New in the AHR, Continued

Continuing our coverage of latest issues of the American Historical Review --

In the April 2012 issue, you'll find an article by Alison Frank on "The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea: Austria, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mediterranean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century." Book reviews include:

• Gary P. Leupp on Philip C. Brown, Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press).

• Stephen Robertson on Susan J. Pearson, The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press).

•  John Dinan on Gerard N. Magliocca, The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash (Yale University Press).

• Charles L. Zelden on Brian D. Behnken, Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (University of North Carolina Press).

•  Philip F. Rubio on David Hamilton Golland, Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (University Press of Kentucky).

• Lisi Oliver on Karl Shoemaker, Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 (Fordham University Press).

•  Thomas Max Safley on Joel F. Harrington, The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany (University of Chicago Press).

• Stefan Winter on Max Weiss, In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shiˁism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon (Harvard University Press).