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Book Reviews

Americanity as a concept, Asia as method: on historicizing Cold War technopolitics

Itineraries of expertise: science, technology, and the environment in Latin America’s long Cold War, edited by Andra Chastain and Timothy Lorek, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2020, 366 pp., US$ 40.00 (paperback), ISBN-13: 9780822945963Engineering Asia: technology, colonial development and the Cold War order, edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018, 272 pp., US$ 39.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 9781350150676

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