Simon Rolston. Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021. 301 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77112-517-8.
Reviewed by David Coogan (Virginia Commonwealth University) Published on H-Biography (January, 2022) Commissioned by Daniel R. Meister (Independent Scholar)
Ariel Ron. Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic. Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. xiii + 308 pp. $59.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4214-3933-4; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-3932-7.
Mai'a K. Davis Cross, Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, eds. European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 309 pp. Open access (pdf), ISBN 978-0-472-90253-8; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13228-7.
Reviewed by Margarita Balmaceda (Seton Hall University) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2022) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Allison Leigh.
Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting.
New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. Illustrations. 296 pp.
$120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5013-4179-3. 
Richard Rhodes.
Energy: A Human History.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Illustrations. 512 pp.
$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5011-0535-7.
Reviewed by Rachel Lanier Taylor (University of Washington) Published on H-Environment (January, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Helena Ekerholm, Karl Grandin, Christer Nordlund, Pateince A. Schell, eds. Understanding Field Science Institutions. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2017. 358 pp. $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88135-483-6.
Reviewed by Jeremy Vetter (University of Arizona) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (January, 2022) Commissioned by Dominic J. Berry (University of Birmingham)
R. Bruce Larson.
Secrets and Rivals: Wartime Letters and the Parents I Never Knew.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015. 188 pp.
$26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2052-3.
Reviewed by Zayna N. Bizri (George Mason University) Published on H-War (January, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Theodore Voorhees Jr. The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. vi + 372 pp. $69.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-472-12671-2; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13192-1.
Reviewed by Jeffrey Poquette (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Purnima Bose.
Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror.
War Culture Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 234 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978805-98-9.
Christopher P. Barton, ed.
Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Illustrations, tables. 266 pp.
$85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6673-8.
Kirwin R. Shaffer. Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion. Global and International History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xiv + 318 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48903-4.
Reviewed by Frances Sullivan (Simmons University) Published on H-LatAm (January, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Germán Vergara. Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 300 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-92397-2.
Reviewed by Justin Castro (Arkansas State University) Published on H-LatAm (January, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56894
Dominique Townsend. A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 272 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-55105-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19487-7; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19486-0.
Reviewed by Lan Wu (Mount Holyoke College) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2022) Commissioned by Lucia Galli
Svenja Goltermann.
The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany.
Translated by Philip Schmitz. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 436 pp.
$34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-472-03845-9.
Barbara Krawcowicz. History, Metahistory, and Evil: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust. New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism Series. Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 242 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64469-481-7.
Reviewed by Aaron J. Koller (Yeshiva University) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2022) Commissioned by Robin Buller (University of California - Berkeley)
