The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands
A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914),…
Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples of Laos and Vietnam
A review of Forests, Spirits, and High Modernist Development: A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in…
A Tibetan Ritual Master’s Objects of Power
A review of Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master…
A Market for Speech: Poetry in Late Mughal India
Review of A Market for Speech: Poetry Recitation in Late Mughal India, 1690-1810, by Nathan Tabor. Something strange happened to…
Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary in Japan
A review of Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and “Foreign Hero”, by James Mitchell…
Morality, Economic Inequality, and Policy Responses
A review of What We Deserve:The Moral Origins of Economic Inequality and Our Policy Responses to It, by Jacob S.…
Biopower, Governmentality & Life Insurance in Modern Japan
A review of Tabling Death: Life Insurance in Modern Japan, 1881-1945, by Ryan Moran. From the 1820s onward, Western societies,…
Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India
A review of Mercantile Aesthetics: Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India (1664-1761), by Liza Oliver. This dissertation unravels the…
Sex Ratios and Female Educational Attainment in China
A review of The Relationship Between Cohort Sex Ratios and Relative Female Educational Attainment in Post-1949 China, by Christina Jenq…
Money and Mercantilism in the 17th-cent. English Atlantic
A review of Money, Mercantilism and Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1607-1697, by Jonathan Barth. Historians of the seventeenth-century…