Cindy R. Lobel. Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ix+276 pp.; 31 halftones, 5 maps, notes, index. $35.00.
John Potvin and Alla Myzelev, eds. Material Cultures, 1740–1920: The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 250 pp.; 39 black-and-white illustrations, index. $119.95.
Book ReviewsCatherine O'Donnell Kaplan. Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. viii+245 pp.; 5 illustrations, notes, index. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
“Handle” with Care: The Practice of Exhibiting Religious Objects inside Museums Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties. By Crispin Paine. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Learning from the Eye of the Other \\ldotsa Nonhuman Other How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. By Eduardo Kohn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
