New Releases by Maxwell Eaton

Deep in the mountainous wilderness of Colorado, a group pursues Conservation efforts. If asked, most would have answered, "Doin'' the good work, ya know." And for the rank and file, that would be an accurate description. There is, however, a small cadre of leadership whose purpose is quite different. Different and infinitely dangerous and devious. For Sheriff Janz the most brutal crime he''s ever seen is intensified by a close personal relationship with the victim. Following clues that have the substance of a puff of smoke in the wind, Janz follows treacherous trails that eventually bring him into contact with a world he never suspected existed in his sparsely populated county. In the course of this investigation, comrades are killed and Janz himself is put at great personal risk. The culmination brings something Janz had never dreamed, threatening an existence he''d taken a lifetime to build.

Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask of the past, the latter covers case studies of particular historical communities in India.

In the heart of India''s Deccan Plateau lies the ruined city of Firuzabad, the royal palace and second capital of Sultan Firuz Shah Bahmani. Built in the early years of the fifteenth century, the city displays a remarkably unified conception of Indo-Muslim architecture. But Firuzabad slipped into oblivion shortly after the death of its patron, and has since remained virtually unnoticed by archaeologists and art historians alike. In the present volume art historian George Michell and Indian historian Richard Eaton have collaborated in producing the first detailed architectural and historical analysis of this fascinating but little-known legacy of Indo-Muslim culture.