Mainstream WeeklyBOOK REVIEW Reviewed by Leo Chu (Cambridge University)
__0__
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution by Marci Baranski INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment. University of Pittsburgh Press
2022. 256 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9.
__0__
When discussing my research with someone from a different field, the term “Green Revolution” does not always ring a bell—people often think it means transition to renewable energy. Among historians, in (…)
Home > Keywords > Topics > Book Review
Book Review
Articles
-
Leo Chu Review of ’The Globalization of Wheat by Baranski’
2 June 2023 -
Review: ‘Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’ | Rishav Sharma
2 June 2023BOOK REVIEW
__0__
Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik C.P Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh (editors)
Tulika Books, New Delhi 2018 ISBN-10 : 9382381937 ISBN-13 : 978-9382381938 __0__
Interpreting the World to Change it: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik is a collection of essays celebrating the life of the stellar Marxist economist Professor Prabhat Patnaik. The contributors include Ashok Mitra, Irfan Habib, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Akeel Bilgrami, Prakash (…) -
Review: No nation for women, reportage on rape from India | Joydip Ghosal
1 July 2023BOOK REVIEW
by Joydip Ghosal
__0__
No nation for women, reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy
by Priyanka Dubey
Simon & Schuster India 2019 / 320 pages ISBN- 978-93-86797-09-4 __0__
No nation for women: Reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy is the outcome of an intangible confluence of the private and lived experience of suffering mass. It becomes amply clear that while authoring the book the writer unequivocally empathises with (…) -
Review of Ellermann, Greg, Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature | Paige Figanbaum
9 June 2023BOOK REVIEW
by Paige Figanbaum (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
__0__
Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature by Greg Ellermann
Stanford University Press 2022. xiii + 180 pp (cloth) ISBN 978-1-5036-2848-9
__0__
Greg Ellermann’s book Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature, provides a thorough examination of the significance of nature as a concept. The author argues that without the romanticism movement, society would view and (…) -
A Story of Police Injustice – And Reprieve | M.R. Narayan Swamy
9 June 2023BOOK REVIEW by M.R. Narayan Swamy
__0__
The Stolen Necklace: A Small Crime in a Small Town by Shevlin Sebastian and V.K. Thajudheen
HarperCollins India Pages: xi + 249 ISBN-10 : 9356296855 ISBN-13 : 978-9356296855 Price: Rs 399
__0__
It happened in a small town in Kerala but it could have happened anywhere in India – and to anyone, more so if one couldn’t pull the right strings. V.T. Thajudheen was adamant he had committed no crime. Yet the (…) -
How Development Has Become Nature’s Enemy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
17 June 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
__0__
Marginlands:
Indian Landscapes on the Brink
by Arati Kumar Rao
Picador India
Pages: 240
ISBN-10 : 9395624434
ISBN-13 : 978-9395624435 __0__
Man’s unending penchant for ’development’ is triggering a disaster of epic proportions all across India – and probably in much of the so-called developing world. This is why gigantic projects have deepened the very problems they were supposed to resolve, why urban landscapes have turned a veritable foe for (…) -
A Study of Women Farmers Under Kudumbashree Collective Farming in Kerala | Sudeshna Sengupta
17 June 2023BOOK REVIEW:
by Sudeshna Sengupta
__0__
From the Realm of Necessity to the Realm of Freedom by Jaya Mehta and Vineet Tiwari
Aakar Books January 1, 2022
ISBN-10 : 9350027674 ISBN-13 : 978-9350027677
__0__
The foreword rightly warns the reader that a wordy introduction will fall short of describing the rich content of the book. The book is indeed a rare one. It comes at a time when the country is grappling with intense agrarian crisis on the one hand and countrywide (…) -
Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall
7 July 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
__0__
Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs
by Philip B. Minehan
Bloomsbury Academic 2022 - Illustrations. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-17064-3 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-22979-2
__0__
When Francisco Franco and other officers rose against the Spanish Republic in July 1936, it was above all the working class that fought the attempted coup d’etat to a (…) -
Bhagat’s Review of Toxic Immanence by Livia Monnet
15 July 2023Reviewed by Raina Bhagat (Northwestern University)
__0__
Toxic Immanence:
Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures
by Livia Monnet
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 472 pp. ISBN 978-0-228-01136-1
__0__
Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures is an edited collection with an ambitious scope, making impressive strides across both disciplines and genres to sketch out numerous paths toward the unequivocal need for the abolition of nuclear (…) -
Sri Lanka’s natural beauty amid fractures | M.R. Narayan Swamy
15 July 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
__0__
Upon a Sleepless Isle: Travels in Sri Lanka by Bus, Cycle and Trishaw
by Andrew Fidel Fernando
Picador India (PP, 2023), Pages: 267; Price: Rs 499 __0__
Call it an irony but tourists, primarily from the West, never stopped exploring Sri Lanka all through the period the country was caught up in one of the longest running and blood-soaked ethnic conflicts. The reason was simple. The battle for a Tamil homeland was largely confined to the northern and eastern (…)