University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Collection
A Review of the University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Collection in Toronto, Canada. Researchers interested in sex and sexuality already…
Women’s Educational Work in Ontario
A review of In Her Hands: Women’s Educational Work at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian National Exhibition and the…
Narratives and Identities of Soviet Chernivtsi: The Fate of Jewish Czernowitz in Postwar Ukraine
Review of The Making of Soviet Chernivtsi: National “Reunification,” World War II, and the Fate of Jewish Czernowitz in Postwar…
The American Red Cross and YMCA in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1924
A review of Constructive Efforts: The American Red Cross and YMCA in Revolutionary and Civil War Russia, 1917–24, by Jennifer…
A Book of Wisdom for Persian Kings & Courtly Elites
A review of The Medieval Reception of Firdausī’s Shāhnāma: The Ardashīr Cycle as a Mirror for Princes, by Nasrin Askari. Nasrin Askari…
Migrant Workers in South Korean Long-Term Care
A review of At the Bottom: Migrant Workers in the South Korean Long-Term Care Market, by Seong Gee Um. Seong…
Advertising in South Korea of the 00s
A review of Tending to the “Flower of Capitalism”: Consuming, Producing and Censoring Advertising in South Korea of the ‘00s,…
Gulag & Soviet Society in Western Siberia
A review of The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953, by Wilson Bell. What was life like for…
The Disaster of Collective Farms under Khrushchev
A review of Reform in the Time of Stalin: Nikita Khrushchev and the Fate of the Russian Peasantry, by Auri…
Social Change in Mumun Pottery Period Korea
A review of Storage Practices, Intensive Agriculture, and Social Change in Mumun Pottery Period Korea, 2903-2450 Calibrated Years B.P., by…