Naomi Oreskes.
Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 738 pages.
$40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-73238-1. 
David L. Shrier, Alex Pentland, eds.
Global Fintech: Financial Innovation in the Connected World.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022. viii + 323 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54366-8.
Call for Papers
Odious Investment: How Finance Creates, Shapes, and Sustains Global Inequalities
David K. Thomson.
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union.
Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 288 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6660-0; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6661-7.
Hanan Toukan. The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5036-2776-5; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0434-6; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-2775-8.
Reviewed by Melissa Scott (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-AMCA (September, 2022) Commissioned by Alessandra Amin (UCLA)
Mark Solovey. Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the "Other Sciences" at the National Science Foundation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. 408 pp. $50.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-35875-0; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-35874-3.
Reviewed by John Gee (Harvard University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Editors:
In 1964, a British MP was running down the hall of the Parliament crying out ‘“the gnomes of Zurich” [who] were at work once again’. In the year, foreign exchange dealers expressed disappointment to the economic policies of the newly inaugurated Labour government; the speculation against British currency resulted in the crisis of sterling, one of the two prides of the United Kingdom.
