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The American Historical Review appears in February, April, June, October, and December of each year. It is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA), 400 A Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 (202-544-2422). It is published by The University of Chicago Press and is printed and mailed by Cadmus Professional Communications, 2901 Byrdhill Road, Richmond, Virginia, 23228. The editorial offices are located at 914 E Atwater, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

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Volume 114, Number 3. The June issue contains one stand-alone article, an AHR Roundtable, and an AHR Forum. The article examines the history of Tamil migration to the Straits Settlements and Peninsular Malaya. In the Roundtable, titled "Historians and Biography," ten historians write about their varied experiences with the genre of biography. The AHR Forum, "Simon Schama's A History of Britain," consists of four articles; the first three assess the popular BBC television series and book, and the fourth is a response by Simon Schama himself. There are also four featured reviews, followed by our usual extensive book review section.

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Cover Illustration: This image shows the gopuram (tower) of the Mariyamman Temple in Georgetown, Penang, built in a quintessentially Tamil style. Among the many colorful statues of deities in the 23-foot structure are different manifestations of the goddess Mariyamman, to whom the temple is dedicated. The temple was first constructed in 1833, although there is evidence that the site hosted a small shrine from as early as 1801. Tamil traders, craftsmen, and laborers began to arrive in the ports of Penang and Singapore immediately after their establishment by the English East India Company. For most of the nineteenth century, there was a steady, circular movement of Tamils back and forth across the Bay of Bengal; after 1870, this turned into migration on a much larger scale, to serve the needs of Malaya's expanding plantation agriculture. In "Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal," Sunil Amrith examines the cultural consequences of this changing pattern of mobility, and identifies the conditions that produced a growing sense of diasporic consciousness among Tamil communities in Malaya. Photograph by Sunil Amrith.

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