Book Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Matthew Carey ◽  
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj ◽  
Eve Monique Zucker ◽  
Younes Saramifar ◽  
Louis Frankenthaler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
New York University ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Indochina War

THE GRECANICI OF SOUTHERN ITALY: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics By Stavroula Pipyrou. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 256 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4830-2.FOUR DECADES ON: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War Edited by Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 334 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-8223-5474-1.FROM THE LAND OF SHADOWS: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora By Khatharya Um. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 272 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-1-4798-0473-3.NATIONALISM, LANGUAGE, AND MUSLIM EXCEPTIONALISM By Tristan James Mabry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 264 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4691-9.CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN ISRAEL: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty By Erica Weiss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 216 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4592-9.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Timo Kallinen ◽  
Michael D. Jackson ◽  
Gisela Welz ◽  
Hastings Donnan ◽  
Jeevan Raj Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Duke University ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The Republic

Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil Andrea Behrends, Stephen P. Reyna, and Günter Schlee, eds. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. 325 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-85745-255-9.The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia Danny Hoffman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 295 pp. Paper ISBN 978-0-8223-5077-4.The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity Yael Navaro-Yashin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 270 pp. Paper ISBN 978-0-8223-5204-4.The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia Vasiliki P. Neofotistos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 216 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4399-4.Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War Judith Pettigrew. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 200 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4492-2.In Memoriam

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-375
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Federal Trade Commission ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
New York University ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Policy System ◽  
Information Law

Daniel Rubinfeld of University of California, Berkeley reviews “The Microsoft Antitrust Cases: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century”, by Andrew I. Gavil and Harry First. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Provides an account of Microsoft's encounter with the global competition policy system and explores its lessons and durable meaning. Discusses the Microsoft antitrust cases; Microsoft's early encounters with the U.S. antitrust system─the Federal Trade Commission investigation and the antitrust division's licensing case; bringing the Windows 95/98 monopolization case; concluding the Windows 95/98 case─appeal and settlement; private litigation in the United States; antitrust as a global enterprise; the challenge of remedy; in praise of institutional diversity; and lessons from the Microsoft cases.” Gavil is Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. First is Charles L. Denison Professor of Law and Director of the Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program at the New York University School of Law.

Book Reviews

Journeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Jackie Clarke ◽  
Melanie Kay Smith ◽  
Margret Jäger ◽  
Anne O'Connor ◽  
Robert Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
New York University ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
Chinese Gardens

Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300– 1860 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), viii + 376 pp., ISBN 978-0-8122-4763-3, $89.95 (hardcover).Susan E. Hill, Alternative Tourism in Budapest: Class, Culture and Identity in a Postsocialist City (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), xxvii + 92 pp., ISBN-9781498528641, $80.00 (hardcover).Amy Speier, Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness (New York: New York University Press, 2016), 165 pp., ISBN- 978-1-4798-4910-9, $28 (paperback).Raphaël Ingelbien, Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent, 1829– 1914 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ix + 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-137- 56783-3, $80 (hardcover).Leanne White, ed., Commercial Nationalism and Tourism: Selling the National Story (Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications, 2017), xvi + 299 pp., 9781845415884, $49.95 (paperback).

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan Josephson ◽  
Marcin B. Stanek ◽  
Tallie Ben Daniel ◽  
Jeremy Ash ◽  
Liz Millward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Modern World ◽  
New York University ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
American Jewish History ◽  
Duke University ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
Trading Network

Tracking the Mobility of Carceral LogicsJennifer Turner and Kimberley Peters, eds., Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (New York: Routledge, 2017), 256 pp., 9 illustrations, $49.95 (paperback)An Exciting Invitation to Rethink Knowledge MobilitiesLudovic Tournès and Giles Scott-Smith, eds., Global Exchanges: Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 356 pp., 9 illustrations, $130 (hardback)Theorizing Mobilities between Disability Studies and PalestineJasbir Puar, Th e Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), 296 pp., $26.95 (paperback)Beyond Borders: Mobility in Australia’s Northern Maritime NetworkJulia Martínez and Adrian Vickers, Th e Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015), 227 pp., $28 (paperback)Backpacking toward European IntegrationRichard Ivan Jobs, Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 32 illustrations, $35 (paperback)Recovering Mobility in American Jewish HistoryShari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 208 pp., $40 (hardback)Which Mobilities? Critical Perspectives on Mobility, Norms, and KnowledgeMarcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid, and Christophe Mincke, eds., Th e Mobilities Paradigm: Discourses and Ideologies (London: Routledge, 2016), 235 pp., £36.99 (paperback)What Makes a Trail?Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 340 pp., $16 (paperback)Airports: Cathedrals of Unsustainable Dreams?Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary (London: Profi le Books, 2009), 112 pp., £8.99 (paperback)

Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-217
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
World War ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Rutgers University

Michael D. Bordo of Rutgers University and NBER reviews “When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy” by William L. Silber,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo’s triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. Explores how McAdoo responded to the twin threats of external gold drain to Europe and the internal drain of currency from banks that were triggered by the outbreak of war. Silber is Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Index.”

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