Mobilization and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan during World War II
A review of “A Fortress of the Soviet Home Front”: Mobilization and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan during World War II, by…
Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel
A review of On View: Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel, by Christa M. Tiernan. The relationship between museums, material…
Writing with Light: Photo-Poetic Encounters in 20th-Century Russian Poetry
A review of Writing with Light: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Tsvetaeva, Pasternak and Brodsky, by Molly Thomasy Blasing. Molly Thomasy Blasing’s…
The Politics of Oil in the USSR
A review of Baku at All Costs: The Politics of Oil in the New Soviet State, by Sara G. Brinegar.…
Material Culture & Craft Production in South India
Review of Craft Specialization, Technology and Social Change: A study of material culture in Iron Age and Early Historic South…
Stone & Glass Beads of Iron Age Southeast Asia
A review of Trade, Exchange and Sociopolitical Development in Iron Age (500 BC – AD 500) Mainland Southeast Asia: An…
Avian Flu in Vietnam
A review of Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam’s Poultry Economy, by Natalie Porter. Since its appearance in 1997,…
Construction of Islamic Iran in Abbasid Historiography
A review of The Arab-Sasanian Narrative in the Early Islamic Historiographical Tradition, by Scott Savran. Many Arabic and Persian histories…
Islamic Revivalism in Southeast Asia
A review of The Social Dynamics of Islamic Revivalism in Southeast Asia: The Rise of the Patani School, 1785-1909, by…
School Meals & Nutrition Policy in the U.S.
A review of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Meals and Nutrition Policy in the United States, 1900-1946, by…