This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions

(I really haven't been buying a lot of books lately.)

• Diane Robinson-Dunn, The Harem, Slavery, and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century (Manchester, 2006).  Analyzes how English attempts to eliminate the harem slave trade intersected with shifting engagements with Muslims, both in England and in Egypt.  (Amazon [secondhand])