Reviews in Philosophy

Matteo Battistini. Middle Class: An Intellectual History through Social Sciences; An American Fetish from Its Origins to Globalization. Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xiii + 217 pp. $151.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-51454-6; $151.00 (pdf), ISBN 978-90-04-51455-3. 

Erin Murphy. Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening―and Closing. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2022. 244 pp. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-952636-25-7. 

Colin Rose. A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49806-7; $30.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-72692-4. 

Mark C. Dillon. The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation. SUNY American Constitutionalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. 336 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-8785-4. 

Wei-Ping Lin. Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan. Taiwan Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51937-0; $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-00-901040-5; $20.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-902123-4.

Reviewed by Mark A. Dodge (University of Buffalo)
Published on H-History-and-Theory (October, 2022)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Sundhya Walther. Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature. Environmental Humanities Series. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021. 278 pp. $85.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-77112-522-2; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-77112-520-8.

Reviewed by Chris Blakley (Occidental College)
Published on H-History-and-Theory (September, 2022)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Debin Ma, Richard Von Glahn, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volumes 1 and 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 2 volumes, 1400 pp.

Damon R. Bach. The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. 360 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-3010-3. 

Hadji Bakara, ed. Journal of Narrative Theory. Special issue, "Refugee Literature," volume 50, no. 3. Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University Press, 2020. 164 pp. n.p. (journal), .

Reviewed by Debjani Sengupta (Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University)
Published on H-History-and-Theory (January, 2022)
Commissioned by Avishek Ray (National Institute of Technology Silchar)

Peter Iver Kaufman. On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019. pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-567-68275-8.

Reviewed by Ilaria Biano (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Napoli)
Published on H-History-and-Theory (December, 2021)
Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)