Books for Review

AVAILABLE BOOKS — 24 MAR 2025

AVAILABLE BOOKS – 15 May 2025

Africa

Cinotto, Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941

Dovey & Thomas, eds. Contemporary African Screen Worlds

Rijke-Epstein, Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar

Americas

  • A review essay of the Blanc & Freitas and Blanc books is preferable to two individual reviews.

Amar, ed., Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation

Blanc, The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil

Freitas and Blanc, eds., The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History

Brulotte, Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace

Burrows, The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration

Davidson, Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

Gautam et al, Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Guillermoprieto, The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America

Hertzman, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi

Lesser, Living and Dying in Sao Paulo

Marichal & Pretel, eds. Colours, Commodities, and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000

Marinez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Nading, The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua

Perez, Queer Engagement: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru

Restrepo, Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Colonial Settler Imaginary

Sosa, Brazil’s Sex Wars

Middle East and North Africa

Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

General

Ayoob, From Regional Security to Global IR: An Intellectual Journey 

Peters, Latin America, China, and Great Power Competition: New Triangular Relationships

If you know of a book published since 2023 about the Global South that is not on the list that you would like to review, please contact the book review editor.