Archiv für August 2012

After the event: the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, Taiwan, and China , By Stephan Feuchtwang. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. Pp. vi+240p. Hardback £55.00/US$95.00, ISBN 978-0-85745-086-9.

Book Reviews Frank Biess, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 339-340Abstract

Colonial project, national game: a history of baseball in Taiwan , By Andrew D. Morris. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xi+271. 14 photographs. Hardback £34.95/US$49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-26279-9.

Book Reviews Jennifer Liu, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 337-339Abstract

The big ditch: how America took, built, ran, and ultimately gave away the Panama Canal , By Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+420. 1 halftone, 30 line illustrations, 48 tables, 6 maps. Hardback £24.95/US$35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-14736-3.

Book Reviews Walter LaFeber, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 336-337Abstract

The great American mission: modernization and the construction of an American world order , By David Ekbladh. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+386. 17 b/w illustrations. Paperback £16.95/US$24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15245-5.

Book Reviews Emily S. Rosenberg, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 334-335Abstract

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa , By Sebouh David Aslanian. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. vi+363. 16 illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tables. Hardback £34.95/US$49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-26687-2.

Book Reviews Sossie Kasbarian, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 332-334Abstract

Debt: the first 5000 years By David Graeber. New York: Melville House, 2011. Pp. 544. Hardback £21.99/US$32.00, ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2.

Book Reviews Suresh Naidu, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 331-332Abstract

Central Asia in world history , By Peter B. Golden. The New Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. x+178. 25 b/w illustrations. Hardback £45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-515-947-9; paperback £12.99, ISBN 978-0-19-533-819-5.

Book Reviews Jagjeet Lally, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 329-331Abstract

Die Souveränität der Schwachen: Lateinamerika und der Völkerbund, 1920–1936 , By Thomas Fischer. Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte 98. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. Pp 459. 39 b/w illustrations, 2 tables. Paperback €68.00, ISBN 978-3-515-10077-9.

Book Reviews Uta Raina, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 328-329Abstract

The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia: visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought , By Cemil Aydin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+299. Hardback £27.50/US$40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13778-2.

Book Reviews Michael Farquhar, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 326-328Abstract

Reviews A global history of history , By Daniel Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxvii+568. Hardback £60.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87575-2; paperback £22.99, ISBN 978-0-521-69908-2.

Book Reviews Q. Edward Wang, Journal of Global History, Volume 7 Issue 02, pp 325-326Abstract