JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, JUNE 2007 tural and economic capital of its respective national community, because of which they were in continual contact and conflict in a manner that often muddied the nationalistically determined boundaries between them. I explore how, beginning with Tel Aviv s establishment in Igog, Zionist leaders deployed a narrative of progress and modernity versus tradition and stagnation to effect a discursive, and ultimately a phys- ical, erasure of the Palestinian Arab population of the region surrounding both towns I argue that such paradigms, and the ideologies that support them, are fundamental components of globalization, whether in the era of"high imperialism"when Jaffa and Tel Aviv's conflict began, or today. Next I move to the contemporary period and explore the intersection of globalization, tourism, and the liberalized market. I con- clude by discussing how a"spatialization"of the contemporary Jaffa is crucial to understanding the continuing conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both within the borders of 1967 Israel and across the Green Line as well Comparative History and Post-Socialist Citie ts on Is Global Shanghai“ Good to Think”? Though 199 EFFREY N. WASSERSTROM Shanghai is routinely described as"unique "yet also routinely likened to other places It thus alternately invites and defies categorization. After introducing general method- ological concerns and providing basic information about the main historical stages through which Shanghai has passed, this article focuses on the period of rapid devel opment and re-engagement with the world that began in the early igOs, arguing that a particularly productive way to think about today's Shanghai is as a "reglobali associ cialis st "urban center-a category that also, for example, includes Budape zing BOOK REVIEWS William H. McNeill et al., eds. Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History REVIEWED BY HERBERT F. ZIEGLER 235 Peter A. Coclanis, ed. The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation Practice, and personnel REVIEWED BY ELIZABETH MANCKE 237 Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, eds Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America REVIEWED BY MARCIA SCHMIDT BLAINE 24 David M. Deal and Laura Hostetler, trans. The Art of Ethnography: A Chinese"Miao Album REVIEWED BY SHANA J BROWN 243 Paul Spickard, ed. Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern world REVIE WED BY TONY BALLANTYNE 247