Books Available for Review

World History Connected has a number of fascinating and timely books available for review. Email the Book Review Editor, Cynthia Ross, at cynthia.ross@tamuc.edu a brief CV, your specializations and/or interests, the title that you would like to review, institutional mailing address, and phone number (for shipment delivery). Please note that availability is subject to change and WHC cannot honor every request. In addition, WHC can only ship hardcover and paperback books to the United States. eBook titles are available to reviewers anywhere.

WHC does not currently accept unsolicited reviews. For those that would like WHC to review a monograph, multi-authored work, edited collection, or first edition textbook, titles must be published within the last two years. Please contact the Book Review Editor for more information.

Note: Publications from 2020 will only be available to review through the end of 2023.

Books Published in 2020

▪ Auerbach, Jeffrey A. Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 (paperback).

▪ Belmonte, Laura A. The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

▪ Ennos, Roland. The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020.

▪ Gordon, Michelle. Extreme Violence and the 'British Way': Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone, and Sudan. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

▪ Kim, Diana S. Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

▪ Louro, Michelle, Carolien Stolte, Heather Streets-Salter, and Sana Tannoury-Karam (Eds). The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020.

▪ Manning, Patrick. A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

▪ Manning, Pat and Tiffany Trimmer. Migration in World History (3rd edition). New York: Routledge, 2020. (eBook)

▪ Mawdsley, Evan. The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

▪ Musgrave, Toby. The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian who Shaped the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

▪ Pellew, Jill and Miles Taylor (Eds.). Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

▪ Rhett, Maryanne A. Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

▪ Siegel, Mona L. Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

▪ Stanley, Amy. Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. New York: Scribner, 2020.

▪ Urbansky, Sören. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

▪ Vries, Peer. Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. (paperback)

▪ Vries, Peer and Annelieke Vries. Atlas of Material Life: Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th Century. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020.

▪ Wempe, Andrew Sean. Chronic Disparities: Public Health in Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

▪ Wood, Gillen D’Arcy. Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

▪ Yazdani, Kaveh and Dilip M. Menon (Eds.). Capitalisms: Towards a Global History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Books Published in 2021

▪ Ahuja, Neel. Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

▪ Dresvina, Juliana. Thanks for Typing: Remembering the Forgotten Women in History. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

▪ Faunce, Ken. Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

▪ Ferrer, Ada. Cuba: An American History. New York: Scribner, 2021.

▪ Fradera, Josep M, José María Portillo and Teresa Segura-Garcia. Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

▪ Ghosh, Amitav. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

▪ Glendinning, Miles. Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power - a Global History. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

▪ Halevi, Leor. Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021 (paperback).

▪ Harper, Kyle. Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

▪ Kreike, Emmanuel. Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

▪ Kugle, Scott. Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

▪ Marsden, Magnus. Beyond the Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics across Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

▪ McNeill, J.R. The Webs of Humankind: A World History (2 vols). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.

▪ Morgan, Kenneth. Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

▪ O'Keeffe, Brigid. Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

▪ Pegler-Gordon, Anna. Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

▪ Robins, Jonathan E. Oil Palm: A Global History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

▪ Saba, Roberto. American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

▪ Siollun, Max. What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

▪ Sluga, Glenda. The Invention of the International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Books Published in 2022

▪ Adhikari, Mohamed. Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2022

▪ Castro, J. Justin and James A. Garza (Eds.). Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

▪ Chatterjee, Choi. Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

▪ Fletcher, Robert S.G. and Robert Hellyer (Eds.). Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.

▪ Gratien, Chris. The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022.

▪ Green, Nile. How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

▪ Harris, Lauren McArthur, Maia Sheppard, and Sara A. Levy (Eds.). Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Stories of Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 2022.

▪ Hellyer, Robert and Harald Fuess The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

▪ Hernández, Kelly Lytle. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.

▪ Lumba, Allan E.S. Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

▪ Monaville, Pedro. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

▪ Parry, Jonathan. Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.

▪ Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer. Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World. Berkeley: University of California Press  , 2022.

▪ Sailer, Anna. Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour, 1870s-1930s. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

▪ Saravanan, Velayutham. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2022.

▪ Seow, Victor. Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

▪ Taylor, Tom. Modern Travel in World History. New York: Routledge, 2022.

▪ Telepneva, Natalia. Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

▪ Twitty, Michael W. Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew. New York: Amistad Press, 2022.

▪ Walvin, James . A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.

▪ Woolmer, Mark. A Short History of the Phoenicians. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.

Books Published in 2023

▪ Clutario, Genevieve Alva. Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.

▪ Darlington, John. Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.

▪ Gross, Stephen G. and Andrew Needham (Eds.). New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.

▪ Johnson, Grace Sanders. White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

▪ Lee, Namhee. Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.

▪ Nayar, Pramod K. The Raj: A Journey Through Ten Documents. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic India, 2023.

▪ Peralta, Elsa and Nuno Domingos (Eds.). Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

▪ Purinton, Malcolm F. Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire            . New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.

▪ Rarey, Matthew Francis. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.

▪ Rofel, Lisa and Carlos Rojas (Eds.). New World Orderings: China and the Global South. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.

eBooks

▪ Gottman, Felicia. Commercial Cosmopolitanism?: Cross-Cultural Objects, Spaces, and Institutions in the Early Modern World. New York: Routledge, 2021. (eBook)

▪ Holstein, Diego. A Brief History of Now. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (eBook)

▪ Kroeze, Ronald, Pol Dalmau, and Frederic Monier (Eds.). Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: A Global Perspective. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (eBook)

▪ Lahti, Janne (Ed.). German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (eBook)

▪ Manning, Pat. Methods for Human History: Studying Social, Cultural, and Biological Evolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (eBook)

▪ Manning, Pat and Tiffany Trimmer. Migration in World History (3rd edition). New York: Routledge, 2020. (eBook)

▪ Scott, Samuel Parsons (Elizabeth Drayson, Introduction). History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, 3 vols. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021 (1904). (eBook)