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  • Review of The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century Third Edition by Robert B. Marks Rowman and Littlefield

    The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Third Edition. Robert B. Marks. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. ISBN:

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  • Review of Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy Oxford University Press

    Japan and the Shackles of the Past. R. Taggart Murphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780190619589 DresnerJapanReviews20192020theMiddleGroundJournal.org Reviewed by Jonathan Dresner, Pittsburg State University, Kansas Edited by Birgit Schneider

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  • Ongoing Forum: Book Reviews and the Teaching of World History, 2018 Cohorts

    Ongoing Forum: Book Reviews and the Teaching of World History, 2018 Cohorts HIST3029 Transnational History: A New Perspective on the Past The University of Hong Kong Semester 1, 2017-18 Dr

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  • Review of Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960. Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho University of North Carolina Press

    Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960. Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780807835401 For Full Article: LockardChReviewsSpring2018themiddlegroundjournal.org

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  • Review of Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1850 by Pedro Machado Cambridge University Press

    Review of Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1850 by Pedro Machado Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.

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  • Review of The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies edited by Abdul Sheriff and Engseng Ho Hurst and Company

    Review of The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies edited by Abdul Sheriff and Engseng Ho The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New

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  • Review of Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto Sakhalin edited by Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton Routledge

    Review of Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto Sakhalin edited by Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto/Sakhalin. Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton. (eds.)

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  • Review of Africanizing Democracies: 1980-Present by Alicia Decker and Andrea Arrington Oxford University Press

    Review of Africanizing Democracies: 1980-Present by Alicia Decker and Andrea Arrington Africanizing Democracies: 1980-Present. Alicia Decker and Andrea Arrington. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780199915392 RichAfrReviewsFall2017themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by

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  • Review of European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 by Richard B. Allen Ohio University Press

    Review of European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 by Richard B. Allen European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850. Richard B. Allen. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press,

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  • Review of Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842—1943 by Emma Jinhua Teng University of California Press

    Review of Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842—1943 by Emma Jinhua Teng Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842—1943.

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On Teaching Column: Ku Klux Klan Documents in Noblesville, Indiana: Race, History, and Archives

September 3, 2021

“Ku Klux Klan Documents in Noblesville, Indiana: Race, History, and Archives” By Sumiko Otsubo, Ph.D., Metropolitan State University Abstract: Discussions of an unusually intriguing case

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March 13, 2020

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