Books Available for Review
World History Connected has a number of fascinating and timely books available for review. Email the Book Review Editor, Gina Bennett, at GBennett@coker.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 2021 will only be available to review through the end of 2024.
Books Published in 2024
Foster, Margaret. The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.
Keith, Charles. Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.
Knapton, Samantha K. and Katherine Rossy. Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-War World. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024.
Loftin, John D. and Benjamin E. Fry. People of Kituwah: The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokees. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.
Myer, Kimberly and Alia Altikrity. Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.
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.
Foster, Anne L. The Long War on Drugs. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Gertis, Frank. The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuits of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966. Ithaca; London: Cornell 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.
Hecht, Gabrielle. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Johnson, Grace Sanders. White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Kennedy, Jonathan. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues. New York: Crown, 2023.
Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah. Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBS and WNBA. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.
Lee, Namhee. Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Milford, Ismy. African Activists in a Decolonizing World. Hyderabad: Cambridge University Press: 2023.
Muller, Simone M. The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
Nayar, Pramod K. The Raj: A Journey Through Ten Documents. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic India, 2023.
Pearson, Natali. Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 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.
Schields, Chelsea. Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Berkely: University of California Press, 2023.
Thilly, Peter. The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023.
Uekotter, Frank. The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
Zhiri, Oumelbanine Nina. Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
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.
Koch, Natalie. Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia. London: Verso, 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.
Sailer, Anna. Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour, 1870s-1930s. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Seow, Victor. Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 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.
Younis, Musad. On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
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).
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.
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.
eBooks
Bailey, Scott. Russia and Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk: A Global History of Maritime Travel and Cultural Encounters, 1600-1900. New York: Routledge, 2023. (eBook)
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)
Morley, Ian. Remodeling to Prepare for Independence. New York: Routledge, 2023. (eBook)
Scott, Samuel Parsons (Elizabeth Drayson, Introduction). History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, 3 vols. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021 (1904). (eBook)
Svriz-Wucherer, Pedro Omar. Jesuits and Asian Goods in the Iberian Empires, 1580-1700. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (eBook)
Weller, Charles. ‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (eBook)
