Reviews Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class and Memory 16 May 2021 This book is a unique contribution to Cold War discourse in that it is not about landless peasants or factory workers in sweatshops but about those who kept the transportation…
Reviews Moments of Silence: The unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok 15 Apr 2021 This book is valuable as both a scholarly contribution to Thai Cold War history as well as a deeply personal memoir of painful memories. Unlike every book reviewed so far…
Reviews Behind Barbed Wire: Chinese New Villages During the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 25 Feb 2021 This book’s main contribution to the wide variety of existing scholarship on the Malayan Emergency is that it centres the voices who were affected most but featured least in previous…
Reviews Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines 28 Jan 2021 This book by Vina Lanzona contributes to the history of revolutionary Cold War politics in Asia by highlighting the role of female revolutionaries. Focusing specifically on the Huk Rebellion in…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: They Were Her Property 22 Sep 20205 Jan 2021 This book by historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers makes a case that white women were not just passive participants in slavery but were active and prominent “co-conspirators”. By studying the voices of…
Reviews Yogi’s Circuit Breaker Reviews 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 During the Circuit Breaker lockdown period in Singapore that lasted from April 7 to June 1, I spent the time reading several books and watching shows on my to-do list.…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Fauda Season 1 9 Jun 20209 Jun 2020 The Israel-Palestine conflict is often characterised by periods of intense violence with a tense peace squeezed in between. Occasionally, a single incident of terror or military operation captures global attention…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Mossad Exodus 26 May 2020 Welcome to the beautiful Arous Village on the sun-kissed shore of Sudan's Red Sea coast. Enjoy diving in pristine waters guided by the best professionals and enjoy the fresh and…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: It Never Rains on National Day 21 May 2020 The National Day Parade is an occasion where the state holds a large birthday bash, smothers citizens in feel-good patriotism and binds them tightly to its definition of national identity.…
Reviews Yogi’s Verdict: Truck de India! A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hindustan 9 May 2020 An instantly iconic symbol of India is the teeming chaos that permeates every facet of life in this nation of over a billion souls. But few outsiders pause to think…
