Melosi, Martin V.. Water in North American Environmental History. Themes in Environmental History Series. New York: Routledge, 2022. Illustrations. ix + 293 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780367485542.$46.95 (paper), ISBN 9780367485535. 
Caneva, Kenneth L.. Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. xix + 735 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780262045735.
Zohar, Ayelet. The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 204 pp. $132.00 (e-book), ISBN 9789004518346.
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Jessamyn Abel (Penn State University)
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Fong, Brian C. H.; Wu, Jieh-Min; Nathan, Andrew J., eds.. China's Influence and the Centre-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780367533564.
Reviewed by
Justin Wu (California State Sacramento )
Published on
H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Margaret Sankey (Air University)
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