Books That Live and Die Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us. By Nicholas Evans. Indianapolis: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. On the Death and Life of Languages. By Claude Hagege, translated by, Jody Gladding. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Book ReviewsS. Max Edelson. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii+383 pp.; 7 illustrations, 4 maps, appendix, index. $45.00.
Elizabeth Hutchinson. The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xv+304 pp.; 88 illustrations, references, index. $89.95.