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.

▪ Abbenhuis, Maartje and Ismee Tames. Global War. Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformation of the First World War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.

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

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

▪ 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.

▪ Berger, Stefan. History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022

▪ Bose, Neilesh (Ed.). South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

▪ Burton, Antoinette and Renisa Mawani. Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

▪ Carvalhal, Hélder, André Murteira, and Roger Lee de Jesus. The First World Empire: Portugal, War and Military Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2021. (eBook)

▪ Casanova, Julián, A Short History of the Spanish Civil War (Revised). New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

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

▪ Droessler, Holger. Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.

▪ Dwyer, Philip and Mark Micale (Eds.). The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.

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

▪ 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.

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

▪ 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.

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

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

▪ Guiliano, Jennifer. A Primer For Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles.Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

▪ 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.

▪ Harrison, Henrietta. The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

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

▪ Jay, Mike. Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. (paperback)

▪ Kaller, Martina and Frank Jacob. Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492: More than Commodities. New York: Routledge, 2021. (eBook)

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

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

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

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

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

▪ Lally, Jageet. India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021.

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

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

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

▪ 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)

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

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

▪ McCoy, Alfred W. To Govern the Globe: World Orders & Catastrophic Change. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021.

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

▪ Morgan, Jennifer L. Reckoning with Slavery: Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

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

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

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

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

▪ 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.

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

▪ Phillips, Andrew. How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest, and the Making of Modern Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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

▪ 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.

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

▪ 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.

▪ 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.

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

▪ 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.

▪ Twiss, Katheryn C. The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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

▪ Von Eschen, Penny M. Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

▪ 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.

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

▪ 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.