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Guano and the opening of the Pacific world: a global ecological history, by Gregory T. Cushman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xx+392. 19 illustrations, 4 tables. Hardback £70.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-00413-9; paperback £25.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-65596-6.
Andean cocaine: the making of a global drug, by Paul Gootenberg. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. xvii+441. 4 illustrations, 12 tables, 2 maps. Paperback £32.50, ISBN: 978-0-8078-5905-6.
The matter of history: how things create the past, by Timothy J. LeCain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xix+346. 15 illustrations. Hardback £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-13417-1; paperback £22.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-59270-4.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Joshua Specht
Joshua Specht*
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Monash University, Australia
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Journal of Global History , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 145 - 150
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1 Mintz, Sidney, Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history, New York: Viking, 1985 Google Scholar ; Carney, Judith, Black rice: the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001 Google Scholar ; Kurlansky, Mark, Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, New York: Penguin Books, 1997 Google Scholar .

2 Tsing’s use of ‘translation’ builds on the work of Shiho Satsuka. See Tsing, Anna, The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015, p. 62 CrossRefGoogle Scholar .