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Volume 8, Issue 3
Pages: 135-191
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
Julie Guthman. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. vii and 308 pp., maps, figures, notes, references, index. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0520305274), $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0520305281).
Eden Kinkaid
Pages: 135-137
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Mimi Sheller. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018. vii and 224 pp., bibliography, index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-7887-3095-2); $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-7887-3092-1); $9.99 electronic (ISBN 978-1-7887-3094-5).
Nathan Cheung
Pages: 138-139
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxiii and 534 pp., notes. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 9780190265960).
John Agnew
Pages: 140-142
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge
James A. Tyner. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2019. $29.99 paper (ISBN 978-1946684417).
Laurie Parsons
Pages: 143-144
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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(Dis)Connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia
Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii and 272 pp., figures, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 9780198823391); $80.75 Kindle edition (ISBN 0198823398).
Ricardo Padrón
Pages: 145-146
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Marixa Lasso. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp., maps, illustrations, photographs, notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978-674-98444-8).
Dean Sinclair
Pages: 147-149
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City
Jason Henderson and Natalie Marie Gulsrud. New York, NY: Routledge Earthscan, 2019. xi and 202 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, notes, index. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-138-33489-2); $150.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-138-31753-6); $24.98 electronic (ISBN 978-0-429-44413-5).
John G. Stehlin
Pages: 150-152
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Power Lined: Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind
Rebecca van Stokkum
Pages: 153-155
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts
Jim Ellis, ed. Calgary, AB, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2019. xiii and 125 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, epilogues, notes, bibliography, contributions. $29.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-77385-092-4).
Patrick C. Okpalaeke
Pages: 156-157
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Book Review Essays

David Lowenthal and the Quest for the Unity of Knowledge
Quest for the Unity of Knowledge. David Lowenthal. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. xiv and 216 pp., foreword, notes, index. $44.95 paper (IBSN 1138625686), $155.00 cloth (ISBN 9781138613157), $22.48 electronic (ISBN 9780429464706).
Sverker Sörlin
Pages: 158-161
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Thinking Bigger: Longue Durée Geographies of Globalizing Capitalism
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. London, UK: Pluto, 2015. xiii and 386 pp. $40.00 paper (ISBN 9780745336152).
Eric Sheppard
Pages: 162-165
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830
Gauvin Alexander Bailey. Kingston, ON, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Vol. 1 of McGill-Queen’s French Atlantic Worlds Series. xviii and 622 pp., illustrations, maps, glossary, timeline, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7735-5314-9).
Jay D. Edwards
Pages: 166-169
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
Marisol LeBrón. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xv and 301 pp. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0520300163); $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0520300170).
Joaquín Villanueva, Micol Seigel, Jordan T. Camp, Stuart Schrader, Beverley Mullings, Jenna M. Loyd & Marisol LeBrón
Pages: 170-182
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Postcolonialism
Tariq Jazeel. London, UK: Routledge, 2019. xi and 258 pp., notes, illustrations, index. $155.00 cloth (ISBN 9781138677463); $42.95 paper (ISBN 9781138677487); $21.48 electronic (ISBN 9781315559483).
Noel Castree, Majed Akhter, Sharad Chari, James D. Sidaway & Tariq Jazeel
Pages: 183-191
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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