New in the AHR: "Turns" in Critical Perspective and More

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The latest issues of the American Historical Review contain material worth spotlighting here (full content is for subscribers only).

The June 2012 issue features a forum on "Historiographic 'Turns' in Critical Perspective."

Book reviews include:

• Miles Ogborn on Lauren Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge University Press).

• Nandini Chatterjee on Mithi Mukherjee, ed., India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History 1774–1950 (Oxford University Press).

• Amy Dru Stanley on Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau, eds., Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (NYU Press).

• Michael G. Carew on James T. Sparrow, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (Oxford University Press).

• Mawil IzziDien on Norman Calder, Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era (Cambridge University Press).

Next up: A look back at the April 2012 issue.