Book Reviews

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LEARNING FROM A DISASTER: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima | Edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan

Daniel P. Aldrich

CHINESE ECONOMIC STATECRAFT: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control | By William J. Norris

Nicholas Krapels

STATE CRIME ON THE MARGINS OF EMPIRE: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining | By Kristian Lasslett

Nicholas A. Bainton

POSTCARDS FROM OCEANIA: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque during the Colonial Era | By Max Quanchi, Max Shekleton

Miriam Kahn

IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GIFT: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community | By Anders Emil Rasmussen

Aletta Biersack

IDYLLIC NO MORE: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas | By Giff Johnson

Ingrid Ahlgren

ALCHEMY IN THE RAIN FOREST: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area | By Jerry K. Jacka

Phillipa Jenkins

THREE CENTURIES OF CONFLICT IN EAST TIMOR | By Douglas Kammen

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge

THE MALAYSIAN ISLAMIC PARTY PAS 1951-2013: Islamism in a Mottled Nation | By Farish A. Noor

Trevor W. Preston

THE MAKING OF MIDDLE INDONESIA: Middle Classes in Kupang Town, 1930s–1980s | By Gerry van Klinken

Shane J. Barter