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Volume 79 - May 2020

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies. By Hans Pols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xx, 285 pp. ISBN: 9781108424578 (cloth).

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

America's Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire. By Marguerite Nguyen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. 235 pp. ISBN: 9781439916124 (cloth).

Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia. By Stefan Eklöf Amirell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 266 pp. ISBN: 9781108484213 (cloth).

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

Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State. By John G. Butcher and R. E. Elson. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017). 527 pp. ISBN: 9789814722216 (cloth).

Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness. By Thomas Stodulka. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag, 2017. 272 pp. ISBN: 9783837636086 (paper).

Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese. By Jayde Lin Roberts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. xvii, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780295996677 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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).

Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation. By Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 246 pp. ISBN: 9781501736384 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement. By Simon Avenell. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. xi, 318 pp. ISBN: 9780824867133 (cloth).

Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire. By Tracey Banivanua-Mar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii, 265 pp. ISBN: 9781107037595 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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

The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam. By Duy Lap Nguyen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781526143969 (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).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada. By Edyta M. Bojanowska. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. viii, 373 pp. ISBN: 9780674976405 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, & Constraint. By Benjamin Tausig. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780190847524 (cloth).

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

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