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Volume 78 - August 2019

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule. By J. Barton Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xi, 267 pp.

The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia. By Richard K. Wolf. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. xxiv, 375 pp. ISBN: 9780252038587 (cloth, also available in paper).

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir. Edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. vi, 302 pp. ISBN: 9780812249781 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea. By Christopher Lovins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxiv, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781438473635 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Censorship in Vietnam: Brave New World. By Thomas A. Bass. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. ix, 228 pp. ISBN: 9781625342959 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Jihad and Dawah: Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah. By Samina Yasmeen. London: Hurst & Company, 2017. xvii, 315 pp.

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan. By Jennifer M. Miller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. vii, 358 pp. ISBN: 9780674976344 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad. By Antonio Giustozzi. London: Hurst, 2018. xx, 292 pp. ISBN: 9781849049641 (cloth).

An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876. By Benjamin Kingsbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780190876098 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945. By Aaron William Moore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781108428255 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity, and Representations. Edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies. New York: Routledge, 2015. xviii, 328 pp.

Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations. Edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies. London: Routledge, 2015. xviii, 328 pp. ISBN: 9780415731287 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jātaka in Thailand. By Katherine A. Bowie. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xvi, 357 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India. By Andrew Ollett. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xi, 308 pp. ISBN: 9780520296220 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State. By Iza R. Hussin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. viii, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780226323343 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life. By Annmaria M. Shimabuku. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. xix, 219 pp. ISBN: 9780823282654 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. By Bradley Camp Davis. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xiii, 266 pp.

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan. By Eiko Maruko Siniawer. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xxii, 398 pp. ISBN: 9781501725845 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present. By Ben Kiernan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi, 621 pp. ISBN: 9780195160765 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia. By Srinath Raghavan. Haryana, India: Penguin Random House, 2018. xxiii, 453 pp. ISBN: 9780670086108 (cloth).

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