Marine Insurance, Governance, and the Early American State
A review of Underwritten States: Marine Insurance and the Making of Bodies Politic in America, 1622-1815, by Hannah Atlee Farber.…
The Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000
A review of Dividing the Waters: How Power, Property and Protest Transformed the Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000, by Sarah Thompson Hines.…
Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters
A review of The Bazaar and the Bari: Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters, by Rahul Bjørn Parson.…
History, Aesthetics, and Politics in Chinese Landscape Paintings
A review of Rising from a Placid Lake: China’s Three Gorges at the Intersection of History, Aesthetics and Politics, by…
Persianate Literary Culture in the 18th and 19th Centuries
A review of Bâzgasht-i Adabî (Literary Return) and Persianate Literary Culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iran, India, and Afghanistan,…
Meanings of “Barbarian” and “Chinese” in China, 600-1300
A review of Reinventing the Barbarian: Rhetorical and Philosophical Uses of the Yi-Di in Mid-Imperial China, 600–1300, by Shao-yun Yang.…
Luxury Goods and the Malthusian Trap
A review of If Not Malthusian, Then Why?, by Lemin Wu. For many thousands of years prior to the Industrial…
Visual Technologies and Culture in Post-Soviet Central Asia
A review of Generational Politics: Narratives of Power in Central Asia’s Visual Culture by Anaita Khudonazar. This dissertation, which stands…
Sexual Abjection and Resistance in Modern Tamil Literature
A review of Scenes of Abjection: Power, Caste and Sexuality in Modern Tamil Literature, by Kiran Keshavamurthy Early Tamil prose…
Social Organization in Neolithic Taiwan
A review of Reconstructing Prehistoric Social Organization: A Case Study from the Wanshan Site, Neolithic Taiwan, by Chih-hua Chiang. Chih-hua…