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Volume 79 - Issue 4 - November 2020

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta. By Debjani Bhattacharyya. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781108425742 (cloth).

The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World. By Neeladri Bhattacharya. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 522 pp. ISBN: 9781438477398 (cloth).

Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire. By Prashant Kidambi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. viii, 423 pp. ISBN: 9780198843139.

To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum. By Nathaniel Roberts. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 286 pp. ISBN: 9780520288829 (paper).

Defending Muhammad in Modernity. By SherAli Tareen. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2020. 482 pp. ISBN: 9780268106690 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Mirroring Power: Ethnogenesis and Integration among the Phunoy of Northern Laos. By Vanina Bouté. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2018. 296 pp. ISBN: 9786162151453 (paper).

Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang. By Janet Carsten. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. x, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781478004813 (paper).

Cities and Nationhood: American Imperialism and Urban Design in the Philippines, 1898–1916. By Ian Morley. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. 260 pp. ISBN: 9780824872922 (cloth).

Workplace Justice: Rights and Labour Resistance in Vietnam. By Tu Phuong Nguyen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 214 pp. ISBN: 9789811331152 (cloth).

Familial Properties: Gender, State and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778. By Nhung Tuyet Tran. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780824874827 (cloth).

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building. Edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. 210 pp. ISBN: 9781501745133 (paper).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt and the Global History of Aesthetic Education. By Raja Adal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xvii, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780231191166 (cloth).

Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. By Julia Cassaniti. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 201. xiv, 297. ISBN: 9781501709173 (paper).

Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies. By Sayaka Chatani. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xiv, 347 pp. ISBN: 9781501730757 (cloth).

The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America. By Nancy E. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xi, 331 pp. ISBN: 9780190645236 (paper).

Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia. By Miriam Driessen. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. viii, 198 pp. ISBN: 9789888528042 (cloth).

Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared. Edited by Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xvii, 341 pp. ISBN: 9780674987104 (paper).

The Limits of Transnationalism. By Nancy L. Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 208 pp. ISBN: 9780226608280 (paper).

The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century. By Parag Khanna. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. 433 pp. ISBN: 9781501196263 (cloth).

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