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Marine Insurance, Governance, and the Early American State

  • E.G. Gallwey
  • 8 minute read
A review of Underwritten States: Marine Insurance and the Making of Bodies Politic in America, 1622-1815, by Hannah Atlee Farber.…
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The Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000

  • Kevin A. Young
  • 7 minute read
A review of Dividing the Waters: How Power, Property and Protest Transformed the Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000, by Sarah Thompson Hines.…
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Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters

  • Rita Banerjee
  • 8 minute read
A review of The Bazaar and the Bari: Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters, by  Rahul Bjørn Parson.…
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History, Aesthetics, and Politics in Chinese Landscape Paintings

  • Jennifer Dorothy Lee
  • 4 shares
  • 7 minute read
A review of Rising from a Placid Lake: China’s Three Gorges at the Intersection of History, Aesthetics and Politics, by…
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Persianate Literary Culture in the 18th and 19th Centuries

  • Arthur Dudney
  • 7 minute read
A review of Bâzgasht-i Adabî (Literary Return) and Persianate Literary Culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iran, India, and Afghanistan,…
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Meanings of “Barbarian” and “Chinese” in China, 600-1300

  • Tineke D’Haeseleer
  • 9 minute read
A review of Reinventing the Barbarian: Rhetorical and Philosophical Uses of the Yi-Di in Mid-Imperial China, 600–1300, by Shao-yun Yang.…
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Luxury Goods and the Malthusian Trap

  • Susan Mays
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  • 7 minute read
A review of If Not Malthusian, Then Why?, by Lemin Wu. For many thousands of years prior to the Industrial…
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Visual Technologies and Culture in Post-Soviet Central Asia

  • Cloé Drieu
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A review of Generational Politics: Narratives of Power in Central Asia’s Visual Culture by Anaita Khudonazar. This dissertation, which stands…
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Sexual Abjection and Resistance in Modern Tamil Literature

  • Kristen Waha
  • 6 minute read
A review of Scenes of Abjection: Power, Caste and Sexuality in Modern Tamil Literature, by Kiran Keshavamurthy Early Tamil prose…
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Social Organization in Neolithic Taiwan

  • Chin-yung Chao
  • 5 minute read
A review of Reconstructing Prehistoric Social Organization: A Case Study from the Wanshan Site, Neolithic Taiwan, by Chih-hua Chiang. Chih-hua…
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