2020 Book reviews

Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering. Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu, eds. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. ISBN: 9781646420018.

Reviewed by Jamie Stoops, Lone Star College

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant

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Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army. Kate Imy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781503610026.

Reviewed by Victor Curiel, Idaho State University

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Sarah Pesola

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Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration. Shelly Chan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780822370543.

Reviewed by Lei Zhang, University of Minnesota

Edited by Birgit Schneider

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From Sadat to Saddam: The Decline of American Diplomacy in the Middle East. David J. Dunford.  Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2019. ISBN: 2370000713155.

Reviewed by Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and and Sarah Pesola

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The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. Scott Straus. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006. ISBN: 10:080144489.

Reviewed by Cliff Ubba Kodero, Florida International University

Edited by Martin Pflug

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Colonial Food in Interwar Paris: The Taste of Empire. Lauren Janes. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. ISBN: 9781472592828

Reviewed by by Nicholas Williams, University of Minnesota

Edited by Ann Waltner

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Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America. Yong Chen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780231168922.

Reviewed by James McElroy, University of Minnesota

Edited by Ann Waltner

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Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. Joshua A. Fogel. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780520283305

Reviewed by Ying-kit Chan, Princeton University

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant

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East Asia Beyond the History War: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence. Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Y. Tsu. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. ISBN:  9781138851863

Reviewed by Ben Van Overmeire, St. Olaf College

Edited by Karen Rosenflanz

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