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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Paul R. Josephson, "Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015) by Carla Nappi

Paul R. Josephson‘s new book explores everyday technologies – fish sticks, sports bras, sugar, bananas, aluminum cans, potatoes, fructose, and more – as technological syst…

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Erica Fox Brindley, "Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2015) by Carla Nappi

Erica Fox Brindley‘s new book is a powerful study of the history of conceptions of ethnicity in early China that focuses on the Hua-xia and the peoples associated with its southern fro…

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Jessica Martucci, "Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America" (U of Chicago Press, 2015) by Carla Nappi

Jessica Martucci‘s fascinating new book traces the emergence, rise, and continued practice of breastfeeding in America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Back to the Breast: …

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