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Volume 12, Issue 1
Pages: 1-52
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire
Scott Kirsch. London, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. xi and 174 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $144.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-367-36180-8), $47.65 electronic (ISBN 978-0-429-34435-0)
Joaquín Villanueva
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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El Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reduction: 19 Countries in Perspective
Michael H. Glantz, ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022. xxii and 388 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography. $119.99 paper (ISBN 978-3-030-86505-4), $89.00 electronic (ISBN 978-3-030-86503-0)
Victor Marchezini
Pages: 3-4
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City
Swapna Liddle, Pramod Kapoor, and Sneha Pamneja. New Delhi, India: Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2023. 108 pp. (₹) 2095 cloth (ISBN 9789392130182)
Sajad Ahmad Mir
Pages: 5-6
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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The Modern Crisis
Murray Bookchin. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2022. 196 pp. $16.00 paper (ISBN 9781849354462), $8.00 electronic (ISBN 9781849354479)
Federico Venturini
Pages: 7-8
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
Natalie Koch. London and New York: Verso, 2023. $21.56 cloth (ISBN 9781839763694), $5.99 electronic (ISBN 9781839763724)
Clarence Dodge
Pages: 9-11
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
Ayşe Zarakol. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv and 302 pp., maps, diagrams, notes, bibliography, index. $34.99 paper (ISBN 1108971679), $76.60 cloth (ISBN 110883860X), $26.49 electronic (ISBN 978-1108838603)
Laura Pangallozzi
Pages: 12-15
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance
Karen Levy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 240 pp, 32 black-and-white illustrations. $33.00/£28.00 paper (ISBN 9780691175300), $23.10 eBook (ISBN 9780691241012)
Debbie Hopkins
Pages: 16-18
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
Yamini Narayanan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 424 pp. $105.00 cloth (ISBN 9781503634367), $35.00 paper (ISBN 9781503634374), $26.00 eBook (ISBN 9781503634381)
Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder
Pages: 19-22
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xxvi and 198 pp., 28 black-and-white illustrations. $99.99/£75.00 cloth (ISBN 9781108832014), $99.99/£71.25 eBook (ISBN 9781108937573)
Michaela Doutch
Pages: 23-25
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies
James D. Sidaway
Pages: 26-30
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day
Massimo Livi-Bacci, trans. David Broder. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2023. 163 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £50.00 cloth (ISBN 9781509555291), £15.99 paper (ISBN 9781509555307), £15.99 electronic (ISBN 9781509555314)
Federico Ferretti
Pages: 31-33
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice
Cleo Wölfle Hazard. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2022. 312 pp. $30.00 paper (ISBN 9780295749754)
Rebecca Lave, Rosemary Collard, Eden Kinkaid, Joanne Clapcott, Marc Tadaki & Cleo Wölfle
Pages: 34-42
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt
Jessica Barnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp., 45 black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4780-1852-0), $104.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4780-1586-4), $27.95 eBook (ISBN 978-1-4780-2311-1)
Mona Atia, Annie Shattuck, Katie Meehan, Timothy Gorman & Jessica Barnes
Pages: 43-52
Published online: 17 Jan 2024
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