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Volume 79 - May 2020

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory. By Long T. Bui. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781479817061 (cloth).

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).

Making New Nepal: From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics. By Amanda Thérèse Snellinger. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 249 pp. ISBN: 9780295743080 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia's Cold War: An Interpretative History. By Ang Cheng Guan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xii, 306 pp. ISBN: 9780824872571 (cloth).

The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life. By Doug Block Clark. New York: Little, Brown, 2019. 368 pp. ISBN: 9780316390620 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

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).

Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army. By Chander S. Sundaram. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781498579513 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam. By Claire E. Edington. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN: 9781501733932 (cloth).

Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox. Edited by Desley Goldston. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2019. xxiv, 478 pp. ISBN: 9788776942540 (paper).

Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations. By Anna Gade. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 323 pp. ISBN: 9780231191043 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab. By Pippa Virdee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 254 pp. ISBN: 9781108428118 (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).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon. By Erik Harms. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. x, 287 pp. ISBN: 9780520292512 (paper).

Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam. By Christian C. Lentz. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. 352 pp. ISBN: 9780300233957 (cloth).

Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia. By Wen-Quing Ngoei. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. x, 254 pp. ISBN: 9781501716409 (cloth).

Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture. By Kathleen M. Adams. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2019. 132 pp. ISBN: 9780924304897 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

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

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History. By Ethan Mark. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 368 pp. ISBN: 9781350022201 (cloth).

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