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Volume 52 - August 2025

Book Review

Jennifer Hart, Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024. vii + 291pp. Bibliography. 21 figures. $90.00 hbk. $45.00 pbk.

Simeon Koole, Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 328pp. 25 images. Bibliography. $35 pbk; $115 cloth.

Diana J. Montaño, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. xvi + 392pp. Bibliography. £43.74 hbk. £26.98 pbk.

Mervyn Busteed, The Sash on the Mersey: The Orange Order in Liverpool 1819–1982. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. xi + 272pp. 22 plates. Bibliography. £110.00 hbk.

Ijlal Muzaffar, Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 312pp. 45 illustrations. Bibliography. £110 hbk; £31 pbk.

Mark Baker, Pivot of China Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Havard University Press, 2024. xiii + 343pp. 11 maps. 12 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. Glossary-Index. $56.95.

Alan Mayne (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 581pp. Bibliography. £107.50 hbk.

A. Adelusi-Adeluyi, Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2024. $34.95 pbk.

Shabna Begum, From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London. London: Lawrence Wishart, 2023. 232pp. £16.00 pbk.

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1500–1800

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George J. Severs, Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. xiii + 237pp. 6 figures. £65.00 hbk. £21.99 pbk.

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Post-1800

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Justin O’Connor, Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 304pp. £85.00 hbk. £14.99 pbk. £14.99 eBook.

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