Jessica Pierce. Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 256 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-20989-0.

Reviewed by Sara Kaufman (Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine)
Published on H-Animal (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Zoei Sutton

Janet Dean. Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 270 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-203-4.

Reviewed by Laurel C. Shire (Western University)
Published on H-AmIndian (August, 2017)
Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe

Willem L. Oltmans. Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination. Edited by Michael A. Rinella. Translated by David Stephenson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. 384 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2378-5.

Reviewed by Oliver Elliott (Independent scholar (PhD, London School of Economics))
Published on H-FedHist (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Andrew Gawthorpe

Lakshmi Subramaniam. The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (India), 2016. 296 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-946704-4.

Reviewed by Johan Mathew (Rutgers University)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Piracy and sovereignty in the Indian Ocean

Stephen R. Taaffe. MacArthur's Korean War Generals. Lincoln: University Press of Kansas, 2016. 278 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2221-4.

Reviewed by James Matray (California State University, Chico)
Published on H-FedHist (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann

Yeidy M. Rivero. Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960. Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 264 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5871-8; $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5859-6.

Reviewed by Susan Harewood (University of Washington at Bothell)
Published on H-Caribbean (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Sarah Foss

Nadia Schadlow. War and the Art of Governance: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017. 344 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-410-9; $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62616-409-3.

Reviewed by Douglas Peifer (Air University, Air War College)
Published on H-War (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Mark Strecker. Shanghaiing Sailors: A Maritime History of Forced Labor, 1849/1915. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2014. 260 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9451-4.

Reviewed by Bradley Cesario (Texas A&M University)
Published on H-War (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Jaap Jacobs, L. H. Roper, eds. The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley. An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 277 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-5097-1.

Reviewed by Greg Rogers (SUNY Cobleskill)
Published on H-War (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Aynne Kokas. Hollywood Made in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. 272 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29402-8.

Reviewed by Ying Zhu (College of Staten Island​)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach