Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
James Longhurst ◽  
Sheila Dwyer ◽  
John Lennon ◽  
Zhenhua Chen ◽  
Rudi Volti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New York ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Book ReviewsPeter Cox, ed. Cycling Cultures (Chester, UK: University of Chester, 2015) - James LonghurstDaniel Owen Spence, Colonial Naval Culture and British Imperialism, 1922–67 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015) - Sheila DwyerColin Divall, ed., Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2015) - John LennonChristopher Kopper and Massimo Moraglio, eds., Th e Organization of Transport: A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy (New York: Routledge, 2014) - Zhenhua ChenPaul Ingrassia, Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012) - Rudi VoltiHagar Kotef, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015) - Gopalan BalachandranBernd Stiegler, Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel. Trans. Peter Filkins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010) - Katarina GephardtThomas Buhler, Déplacements urbains: sortir de l’orthodoxie. Plaidoyer pour une prise en compte des habitudes (Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2015) - Mathieu FlonneauRuth A. Miller, Snarl: In Defense of Stalled Traffi c and Faulty Networks (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015) - Kyle SheltonNovel ReviewEmily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (London: Picador, 2014) - Fiona Wilkie

Book Reviews

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Laurence McFalls ◽  
Jeffrey J. Anderson ◽  
Vanessa Beck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
German Unification ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Duke University

Jennifer A. Yoder, From East Germans to Germans? The New Postcommunist Elitesn(Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)Review by Laurence McFallsHölscher, Jens and Anja Hochberg, eds., East Germany’s Economic Development Since Unification: Domestic and Global Aspects (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)Review by Jeffrey J. AndersonBrigitte Young, Triumph of the Fatherland. German Unification and the Marginalization of Women (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999) Review by Vanessa Beck

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-130
Author(s):  
Andrew Barnfield ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
African City ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Economic Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
And Migration ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Being Lighter Than Air Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 304 pp., 34 illustrations, $27.95 (paperback) Challenging Landscapes of Confinement Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-makers (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), 352 pp. £81 (hardback). “Bottleneck” in Dakar: From Metaphor to Anthropological Analytical Tool Caroline Melly, Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in An African City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 224 pp., 11 halftones, $30 (paperback). Migratory Trajectories, Affective Attachments, and Sexual-Economic Exchanges Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, eds., Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 248 pp., $120 (hardback). Engineering Nineteenth-Century Transport Innovations Maxwell Lay, The Harnessing of Power: How 19th Century Transport Innovators Transformed the Way the World Operates (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), 374 pp., £64.99 (hardback). The Politics of Mobility in Postcolonial Kenya Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 31 halftones, $30 (paperback). A Sense of What Commuting Takes David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 illustrations, $32 (paperback). Vanishing Point? The City after the Car Venkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David Gonsalvez, Faster, Smarter, Greener: Th e Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (Massachusetts: Th e MIT Press), 326 pp, $29.95 Troubling the “View from Above” Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 298pp., 24 color plates. Hardcover: $77, Paper $25. Mobility, Mobilization, and Cooptation Claudio Sopranzetti, Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), xiv + 328 pp., $85.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback). No Exit: The Persistent Legacies of Mobility Choices in Houston Kyle Shelton, Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), 302 pp., 24 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 (paperback)

Book Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-107
Author(s):  
Joyce Marie Mushaben ◽  
Shelley Baranowski ◽  
Trevor J. Allen ◽  
Sabine von Mering ◽  
Stephen Milder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
German Colonialism ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Elective Office ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Cold War

Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation: Recruiting Candidates for Elective Office in Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016)Bradley Naranch and Geoff Eley, ed. German Colonialism in a Global Age (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014)Andrew C. Gould and Anthony M. Messina, ed. Europe’s Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)Kathrin Fahlenbrach Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth, ed., Protest Cultures: A Companion (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016)Udi Greenberg, The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014)Heinrich August Winkler, The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914-1945, trans. S. Spencer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)Philipp Ther, Europe Since 1989. A History, trans. Charlotte Hughes- Kreutzmüller (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016)

Book Reviews

Journeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Nicholas Ferns ◽  
David Farley ◽  
Sue Beeton ◽  
Paula Mota Santos ◽  
Rachel Luchmun
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
Diasporic Communities

Carla Manfredi. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888–1894 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 256 pp., ISBN: 978-3-319-98312-7, €69.99 (hardcover).Richard Ivan Jobs. Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) 360pp, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46203-5, $35.00 (paper).Youngmin Choe. Tourist Distractions: Travelling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016), xii + 252pp., ISBN-978-0-8223-6130-5, $60.99 (pbk).Valerio Simoni. Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba (Oxford; Berghahn, 2016), 282+xvi pp, ISBN 978-1-78533-833-5, $27.95 (paperback).Sabine Marschall. Tourism and Memories of Home: Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities (Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2017), xv + 288 pp., ISBN 13: 978-1-84541-602-7, $49.95 (paperback).

Book Reviews

Theoria ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (162) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
David James ◽  
Bahareh Ebne Alian ◽  
Jean Terrier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit, by Jean-François Kervégan. Translated by Daniela Ginsburg and Martin Shuster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xxiii + 384 pp.Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, by Ernst Bloch. Translated by Loren Goldman and Peter Thompson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xxvi +109 pp.Critique of Forms of Life, by Rahel Jaeggi. Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. xx + 395 pp.

Book Reviews

Journeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The University ◽  
Literary Encounters ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Randy Malamud, The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist. Chicago/Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, vii + 236 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1783208746, $29.50 (paperback).Mark Rice, Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth Century Peru (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), xvi + 253 pp., ISBN 978-1-4696-4353-3, $28.75 (paperback).Jeffrey Mather, Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form (New York: Routledge, 2020), ix + 182 pp., ISBN 978-1-03-208815-0, US $48.95 (paperback).

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