maritime trade, most notably with China. This geopo liti cal revolution coincided with new directions in women’s education, geographic literacy, and cartography. These are exemplified by Boston schoolmistress Susannah Rowson’s geography textbooks and the map and globe samplers school girls made from Chinese silk at Rowson’s and other female academies. In concluding this chapter, Skeehan, explores American Orientalist views of China evident in the nation’s appetite for imported China trade commodities, and fascination with Chinese visitors such as Afong Moy who toured the United States in the 1830s and 1840s as “The Chinese lady” in an exhibition that reinforced imaginary and biased views of China and its people. Remaining chapters in the publication offer insight on additional topics and events explored through the interplay of text and textiles. Subjects include the British East India Com pany and importation of cotton from India; North American rag paper mills and printing industries; Great Britain’s 1765 Stamp Act and homespun and spinning bees as symbols of preRevolution American colonial re sis tance; Spanish imperial colonization and the triangle trade between New Spain, Manila, and China; development of the factory and plantation systems; and U.S. expansionism and the Mexican– American War. In conclusion, I highly recommend this publication for its interdisciplinary scholarship and relevance to the academic disciplines of history, literary studies, race and gender studies, material culture, textile and clothing history, and for its applicability within museum studies and public history fields.

Abstract This article contains full editions with commentary of a selection from the ink writing-tablets discovered in the excavation of 2017, four letters written by or to the prefect Iulius Verecundus. The editions are numbered continuously from 890, following the sequence in Tab. Vindol. IV.1 and 2.

Abstract The Latin writing tablets from Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort about a mile south of Hadrian's Wall, were discovered by the archaeologist R. E. Birley in excavations of parts of the pre‐Hadrianic timber forts during the period 1974–2004.

This article contains full editions with commentaries of the second and final instalment of the approximately 37 ink writing-tablets from Vindolanda discovered in the excavation seasons of 2001, 2002 and 2003. The editions are numbered continuously from 870, following the sequence in Tab. Vindol. IV. 1, and are grouped in the following categories: Military Document, Letters, Descripta.

ABSTRACT This article contains full editions with commentaries of the first instalment of the approximately 37 ink writing-tablets from Vindolanda discovered in the excavation seasons of 2001, 2002 and 2003. The editions are numbered continuously from 854 , following the sequence in A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas, The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses III) (2003), and are grouped in the following categories: Literary Texts, Military Documents, Accounts, Letters. The second instalment, to be published in 2011, will contain the remaining Letters and Descripta.

(P.) Schubert Philadelphie: Un village égyptien en mutation entre le IIe et le IIIe siècle ap. J.-C. (Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 34). Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2007. Pp. xv + 190. €54.50. 9783796523052. - Volume 130

During the inter-war period, the industrially advanced and the agricultural régions of Europe witnessed divergent patterns of industrial growth. Whereas the industrialization of the wealthy countries proved a slow process, compared with the latter half of the 19th century, the peripheral countries experienced a more rapid development of their industrial sector between 1910 and 1938 than during the preceding period. Furthermore, during the interwar period, they enjoyed-on average-a superior growth rate than that of industrialized countries. However, inequalities did not for that tend to diminish. Indeed, this contribution, based on a study of three sectors (textiles, steel and automobile) shows that the declining industrial development of the core countries served to obscure certain major structural changes for example, consumer goods industries witnessed a décliné in favour of new sectors-such as machinery or chemical industries. At the same time, the peripheral countries were hardly affected by this re-structuration process. On the contrary, the majority experienced an industrial development in the sphere of consumer goods-especially in textiles. And insofar as the booming textile industry failed to give a boost to other économie sectors, the European periphery was faced with an industrial growth with no prospects of development.

This article offers preliminary editions of three texts discovered at Vindolanda in the excavations of 1993. These seasons produced a total of about 400 ink tablets and 46 stilus tablets. Added to the yields of the earlier seasons of the 1990s, we estimate that there are between 70 and 80 substantial new ink texts which we hope to publish within the next three years.