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Peter Thilly.
The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. xii + 298 pp.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-2886-1; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3410-7. 
Michael A. Verney. A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp.
Daniel Leonhard Purdy. Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 420 pp. Free (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-5975-8; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5974-1; $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5973-4.
Reviewed by Irmy Schweiger (Stockholm University) Published on H-Water (May, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 336 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-286339-3.
Reviewed by Michael W. Jung (Saarland University) Published on H-Water (May, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58566
Philip Gooding. On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c. 1830-1890. Cambridge Oceanic Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 252 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-00-910074-8.
Reviewed by Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi (Princeton University) Published on H-Water (April, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
