Book Reviews

MIGRANT HOUSING: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration. Mirjana Lozanovska. 2019. Abingdon: Routledge. 242 pages. ISBN 9781138574090 (Hardback).THE AGE OF MIGRATION: International Population Movements in the Modern World. 6th ed. Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, Mark J. Mille. 2020. London: Red Globe Press. 446 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1352007985.REFUGEE IMAGINARIES: Research across the Humanities. Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge, and Agnes Woolley, eds. 2020. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 642 pages. ISBN 9781474443197 (hardback).MIGRATION AS A (GEO-)POLITICAL CHALLENGE IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE: Border Regimes, Policy Choices, Visa Agendas. Olga R. Gulina. 2019. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag. 120 pages. ISBN: 9783838213385.COMPARATIVE REVIEW: Migration and Development in India: Provincial and Historical PerspectivesINDIA MOVING: A History of Migration. Chinmay Tumbe. 2018. New York: Penguin Viking. 285 pages. ISBN: 9780670089833.PROVINCIAL GLOBALISATION IN INDIA: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics. Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten, and Leah Koskimaki, eds. 2020. New York: Routledge. 193 pages. ISBN: 978-1-138-06962-6.

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Book Reviews: Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy, The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry, John Frank Stevens, Civil Engineer, Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining, Landscapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics and Placemaking, Bread upon the Waters. The St Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811, Maritime History and Identity: The Sea and Culture in the Modern World, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s, The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876–1910, Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino, The Routes Not Taken. A Trip through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System, On Wings of Diesel. Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan, Pleasure Boating on the Thames: A History of Salter Bros 1858-Present Day

The Journal of Transport History ◽

10.7227/tjth.36.1.10 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 127-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erik Benson ◽

Richard Byers ◽

Albert J. Churella ◽

Sasha Disko ◽

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Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Cultural History ◽

Maritime History ◽

Modern World ◽

Russian Economy ◽

Grain Trade ◽

Subway System ◽

History Of ◽

Diesel Trucks

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Journal of Economic Literature ◽

10.1257/jel.56.2.685.r2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 692-694

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Modern World ◽

Global Level ◽

Distribution Of Wealth ◽

The Great Depression ◽

History Of ◽

Money Creation ◽

International University ◽

Florida International University

Mira Wilkins of Florida International University (Emeritus) reviews “Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World,” by Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the history of the relationships between national money-creation systems and their international connections, concentrating on the connections between Tokyo, London, and New York from the late 1890s to the Great Depression, and explains how these processes have reshaped the flow of resources and distribution of wealth at the global level.”

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