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Author:

Jessica Stites Mor, Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas, eds.

Reviewer:

Katherine Zien

Zien on Stites Mor and Suescun Pozas, 'The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America'

Jessica Stites Mor, Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas, eds. The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. vi + 310 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4773-1640-5.

Reviewed by Katherine Zien (McGill University) Published on H-LatAm (April, 2019) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Adam Montgomery

Reviewer:

John Casey

Casey on Montgomery, 'The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan'

Adam Montgomery. The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan. McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4995-1.

Reviewed by John Casey (University of Illinois at Chicago) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Gerard Goggin, Linda Steele, Jessica Robyn Cadwallader, eds.

Reviewer:

Lisa Beckmann

Beckmann on Goggin and Steele and Cadwallader, 'Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture'

Gerard Goggin, Linda Steele, Jessica Robyn Cadwallader, eds. Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2017. x + 163 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-30248-8.

Reviewed by Lisa Beckmann (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, Lucy Noakes, eds.

Reviewer:

Ulrike Neuendorf

Neuendorf on Handley and McWilliam and Noakes, 'New Directions in Social and Cultural History'

Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, Lucy Noakes, eds. New Directions in Social and Cultural History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xv + 275 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4725-8081-8.

Reviewed by Ulrike Neuendorf (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer ) Published on H-Socialisms (April, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Author:

Michael P. Gray, ed.

Reviewer:

Thomas F. Curran

Curran on Gray, 'Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered'

Michael P. Gray, ed. Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2018. 256 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-341-7.

Reviewed by Thomas F. Curran (Cor Jesu Academy) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Author:

Amy Sueyoshi

Reviewer:

Chrissy Lau

Lau on Sueyoshi, 'Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"'

Amy Sueyoshi. Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental". Asian American Experience Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. x + 212 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08325-9; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04178-5.

Author:

Peter Cryle, Elizabeth Stephens

Reviewer:

Verusca Calabria

Calabria on Cryle and Stephens, 'Normality: A Critical Genealogy'

Peter Cryle, Elizabeth Stephens. Normality: A Critical Genealogy. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2017. 440 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-48386-3; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-48405-1.

Reviewed by Verusca Calabria (Nottingham Trent University) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Philip G. Roeder

Reviewer:

Kathleen G. Cunningham

Cunningham on Roeder, 'National Secession: Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns'

Philip G. Roeder. National Secession: Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 312 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-2598-2.

Reviewed by Kathleen G. Cunningham (University of Maryland, College Park) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Raphael D. Marcus

Reviewer:

Ehud Eilam

Eilam on Marcus, 'Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation under Fire'

Raphael D. Marcus. Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation under Fire. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018. viii + 330 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-611-0; $110.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62616-610-3.

Reviewed by Ehud Eilam (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, Przemysław Czapliński

Reviewer:

Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad

Witczak Haugstad on Trojanowska and Niżyńska and Czapliński, 'Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918'

Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, Przemysław Czapliński. Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 856 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-5018-3.

Reviewed by Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad (Research Council of Norway) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev

Author:

Antony Eastmond

Reviewer:

Karen Carr

Carr on Eastmond, 'Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia'

Antony Eastmond. Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 480 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-16756-8.

Reviewed by Karen Carr (Portland State University) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

William G. Ross

Reviewer:

Edward Gutierrez

Gutierrez on Ross, 'World War I and the American Constitution'

William G. Ross. World War I and the American Constitution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 402 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-18164-8.

Reviewed by Edward Gutierrez (Boston College) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Author:

Danny Orbach

Reviewer:

Mark Montesclaros

Montesclaros on Orbach, 'The Plots against Hitler'

Danny Orbach. The Plots against Hitler. Boston: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. xvi + 406 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-544-71443-4.

Reviewed by Mark Montesclaros (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Benjamin T. Smith

Reviewer:

Keegan Boyar

Boyar on Smith, 'The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street'

Benjamin T. Smith. The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 382 pp. $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3808-9.

Reviewed by Keegan Boyar (University of Chicago) Published on H-LatAm (April, 2019) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Bénédicte Boisseron

Reviewer:

Andrew Kettler

Kettler on Boisseron, 'Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question'

Bénédicte Boisseron. Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 288 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18665-0.

Reviewed by Andrew Kettler (University of Toronto) Published on H-Florida (April, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Northern Illinois University)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53674

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Zien on Stites Mor and Suescun Pozas, 'The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America'

Casey on Montgomery, 'The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan'

Beckmann on Goggin and Steele and Cadwallader, 'Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture'

Neuendorf on Handley and McWilliam and Noakes, 'New Directions in Social and Cultural History'

Curran on Gray, 'Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered'

Lau on Sueyoshi, 'Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"'

Calabria on Cryle and Stephens, 'Normality: A Critical Genealogy'

Cunningham on Roeder, 'National Secession: Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns'

Eilam on Marcus, 'Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation under Fire'

Witczak Haugstad on Trojanowska and Niżyńska and Czapliński, 'Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918'

Carr on Eastmond, 'Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia'

Gutierrez on Ross, 'World War I and the American Constitution'

Montesclaros on Orbach, 'The Plots against Hitler'

Boyar on Smith, 'The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street'

Kettler on Boisseron, 'Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question'

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