TY - JOUR
AU - Woodward, C. Vann
AB - United States 917 Other readers may want to add to the author's these sociocultural "constellations," but he eschews what he terms the strict "corset of chronology" (vol. 3, analysis of agrarian society in volume 3. Lombard p. 151). Instead, his presentation proceeds diachron- correctly laments the stereotyping of rural society ically but, like a Javanese gamelan performance, reg- that occurs in Java studies, and the lack of systematic ularly circles back on itself to gradually reveal a more historical or ethnographic monographs from the is- complex pattern. Thus, for example, having intro- land's varied regions (vol. 3, pp. 15, 75). A more duced readers to the impact of European civilization patient reading, however, of extant ethnographic on native Javanese kingdoms in volume 1, the author sources—on par with the author's careful examina- returns to the evolution of indigenous polity in vol- tion of historical and literary materials—would have umes 2 and 3, each time deepening our understand- enriched the discussion of rural Islamization in vol- ing of the topic relative to the larger sociocultural ume 2 and of non-conformist, antihierarchical tradi- "constellation" that is the focus of the volume at hand. tions in volume 3. Although woefully incomplete, Hence 
TI - Eric Foner, editor. The New American History. (Critical Perspectives on the Past.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1990. Pp. xi, 292. Cloth $39 ...
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/97.3.917
DA - 1992-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/eric-foner-editor-the-new-american-history-critical-perspectives-on-5xbs7Dilnx
SP - 917
EP - 918
VL - 97
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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