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Chiara Formichi, “Islam and Asia: A History” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Chiara Formichi
Islam and Asia
A History
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 30, 2020 Shobhana Xavier

Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities. Focusing on themes... Read More
Alexander L. Fattal, “Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Alexander L. Fattal
Guerrilla Marketing
Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 29, 2020 Sharika Crawford

Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2019) investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. In this ethnography, Alexander L. Fattal explores the ways marketing became a tactic of counterinsurgency as a means of a humanitarian intervention,... Read More
Brian Crim, “Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Brian Crim
Planet Auschwitz
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Rutgers University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in Science FictionNew Books Network May 29, 2020 Craig Sorvillo

In his new book, Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Brian Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years.... Read More
Michael Braddick, “The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Michael Braddick
The Common Freedom of the People
John Lilburne and the English Revolution
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 29, 2020 Charles Prior

As historical topics, political revolutions come in and out of fashion. At the moment the American Revolution as an ideological struggle engages the public, but historians are less sure. Books that used to have the Revolution at their centre now approach it from the edges and peripheries, integrating the experiences... Read More
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, “Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku” (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Branding Japan’s Food
From Meibutsu to Washoku
University of Hawaii Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network May 29, 2020 Nathan Hopson

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka and Yasuhara Miho’s Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku (University of Hawaii Press, 2020) explores historical and contemporary practices of place branding through food in Japan. The book’s narrative centers on the event that precipitated its writing, namely, the 2013 addition of “Washoku, traditional dietary cultures... Read More
Carl Suddler, “Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York” (NYU Press, 2019)
Carl Suddler
Presumed Criminal
Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
NYU Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network May 28, 2020 Adam McNeil

A stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many... Read More
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, “Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present” (UNC Press, 2020)
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Landscape of Migration
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
University of North Carolina Press, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 28, 2020 Elena McGrath

Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (UNC Press, 2020), traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia during the twentieth century, exploring how each of these communities forged and contested the landscape of agrarian citizenship in... Read More
Alexander Bukh, “These Islands Are Ours” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Alexander Bukh
These Islands Are Ours
The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network May 28, 2020 Nathan Hopson

Alexander Bukh’s These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia (Stanford University Press 2020) provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia. In his analysis of Japan’s rows over the “Northern Territories” (with Russia),... Read More

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