Social Difference and Culinary Education in Peru
A review of The Taste of Distinction: Culinary Education and the Production of Social Difference in Lima, Peru, by Amy…
Educating the Masses in China
A review of The Politics of Education: Popular Education, Quotidian Experience, and Contention over the Masses in China, 1927–1937, by…
Siberian Patriots and the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920
Review of Siberian Patriots: Participatory Autocracy and the Cohesion of the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920, by David Rainbow David Rainbow’s…
The Sounds and Music of the Red Shirt Movement in Thailand
A review of Bangkok is Ringing, by Benjamin Tausig. Sound matters. Anyone who had a chance to attend the rallies…
Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution
A review of The Phenomenology of “Zeitgeist”: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution, by Pu Wang. When I began studying…
Global Indie Music in Uruguay
A review of Between Two Monsters: Popular Music, Visual Media, and the Rise of Global Indie in 21st Century Uruguay,…
Organization and Social Function of Templar Communities in France
A review of Templar Communities in Medieval Champagne: Local Perspectives on a Global Organization, by Michael Joseph Peixoto. The history of…
Imagining Bisexuality in Cinema
A review of Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Imagining Bisexuality in the Cinema by Beth Carol Roberts Beth Roberts’ dissertation Neither…
Pigs, Pork, and Ham in Early Modern Chinese Society
A review of Pigs, Pork, and Ham: The Practice of Pig-Farming and the Consumption of Pork in Ming-Qing China, by…
Colombia’s First Narcotics Boom
A review of The Marihuana Axis: A Regional History of Colombia’s First Narcotics Boom, 1935-1985, by Lina Britto. Lina Britto’s…