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S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, “Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sabina Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons
Going Nowhere Fast
Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 22, 2020 Dino Kadich

Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality (Oxford UP, 2020) brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history. After years of staggering economic growth and a political breakthrough in 2013, disappointment set in as the fruits... Read More
Brian Eyler, “Last Days of the Mighty Mekong” (Zed Book, 2019)
Brian Eyler
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong

Zed Books, 2019

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Southeast Asian Studies September 21, 2020 Patrick Jory

The Mekong River is one of the world’s great rivers. From its source in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau it snakes down through southern China and then borders or runs through all the countries of mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia and Vietnam. Almost 70 million people depend either directly or... Read More
Sai Balakrishnan, “Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Sai Balakrishnan
Shareholder Cities
Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in South Asian Studies September 16, 2020 Aparna Gopalan

In the thoroughly researched, lucidly narrated new book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India (University of Pennsylvania Press), Sai Balakrishnan (Assistant Professor of City and Urban Planning at UC Berkeley) examines the novel phenomenon of the conversion of agrarian landowners into urban shareholders in India’s newly emerging... Read More
Sören Urbansky, “Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sören Urbansky
Beyond the Steppe Frontier
A History of the Sino-Russian Border
Princeton University Press, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast September 8, 2020 Ed Pulford

The fact that the vast border between China and Russia is often overlooked goes hand-in-hand with a lack of understanding of the ordinary citizens in these much-discussed places, who often lose out to larger-than-life figures like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. A book that combines a look at the history... Read More
Molly Loberg, “The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Molly Loberg
The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin
Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology August 26, 2020 Michael E. O’Sullivan

Who owns the street? This is the question that animates The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945 (Cambridge University Press) by Molly Loberg. Interwar Berliners faced this question with great hope yet devastating consequences. In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed... Read More
N. Detering and I. Walser-Bürgler, “Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400–1800” (Brill, 2019)
N. Detering and I. Walser-Bürgler,
Contesting Europe
Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400–1800
Brill, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society August 25, 2020 Alexandra Ortolja-Baird

While the term ‘Europe’ was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained a prevalence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which it did not possess before. Although studies on the history of the idea of Europe abound, much of the... Read More
Lakshmi Subramanian, “The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Lakshmi Subramanian
The Sovereign and the Pirate
Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral
Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean World July 27, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Lakshmi Subramanian’s The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral (Oxford University Press, 2016) offers an amphibious history written around the juncture of the nineteenth century, when the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids. These attacks disrupted... Read More
Katherine Zien, “Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Katherine Zien
Sovereign Acts
Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone
Rutgers University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 24, 2020 Sharika Crawford

In Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Katherine Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone from U.S. control over the zone in 1903 to its withdrawal in 1999. Moving... Read More
Sandra Postel, “Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity” (Island Press, 2020)
Sandra Postel
Replenish
The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
Island Press, 2020

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society July 22, 2020 Chris Gambino

In Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity (Island Press), Sandra Postel acknowledges society’s past mishaps with managing water and emphasizes our future is contingent upon rehabilitating our science, tech, and political solutions.  To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with,... Read More
Thaisa Way, “River Cities, City Rivers” (Dumbarton Oaks, 2018)
Thaisa Way
River Cities, City Rivers

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & Technology July 16, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a city’s success or cause its destruction. At the same time, city-building reshapes rivers and their landscapes. Cities have... Read More

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