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Author: 
Frank A. Stengel
Reviewer: 
William G. Gray

Gray on Stengel, 'The Politics of Military Force'

Frank A. Stengel. The Politics of Military Force. Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. xvi + 269 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13221-8.

Reviewed by William G. Gray (Purdue University) Published on H-War (March, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Henry D. Sokolski
Reviewer: 
Brian D. Green

Green on Sokolski, 'Space and Missile Wars: What Awaits'

Henry D. Sokolski. Space and Missile Wars: What Awaits. Arlington: Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 2021. iii + 277 pp. $7.01 (paper), ISBN 978-1-73711-130-6

Reviewed by Brian D. Green (Space Training and Readiness Command) Published on H-War (March, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello, eds.
Reviewer: 
Alka Raman

Raman on Bruland and Gerritsen and Hudson and Riello, 'Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation'

Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello, eds. Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. Illustrations, tables. 344 pp. $140.00 CAD (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00090-7; $40.95 CAD (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00091-4.

Reviewed by Alka Raman (London School of Economics and Political Science) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (March, 2023) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Author: 
Kathryn Meyer McAllister Olivarius
Reviewer: 
Robert Colby

Colby on Olivarius, 'Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom'

Kathryn Meyer McAllister Olivarius. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $27.87 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24105-3

Author: 
Atalia Shragai
Reviewer: 
Pete Soland

Soland on Shragai, 'Cold War Paradise: Settlement, Culture, and Identity-Making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945–1980'

Atalia Shragai. Cold War Paradise: Settlement, Culture, and Identity-Making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945–1980. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xvii + 316 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-2030-1; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-3079-9

Author: 
Eliyana R. Adler
Reviewer: 
Joanna Sliwa

Sliwa on Adler, 'Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union'

Eliyana R. Adler. Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps, table. x + 433 pp. $51.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98802-6.

Reviewed by Joanna Sliwa (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)) Published on H-Poland (March, 2023) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Andrew M. Wehrman
Reviewer: 
Vaughn Scribner

Scribner on Wehrman, 'The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution'

Andrew M. Wehrman. The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 416 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-4466-6

Author: 
Todd Meyers
Reviewer: 
Glenys Caswell

Caswell on Meyers, 'All That Was Not Her'

Todd Meyers. All That Was Not Her. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp. $26.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2251-0; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1789-9.

Reviewed by Glenys Caswell (University of Nottingham) Published on H-Death (March, 2023) Commissioned by Khyati Tripathi (Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, UPES University)

Author: 
Angelo Cangelosi, Minoru Asada, eds.
Reviewer: 
Kuan-Hung Lo

Lo on Cangelosi and Asada, 'Cognitive Robotics'

Angelo Cangelosi, Minoru Asada, eds. Cognitive Robotics. Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series. Cambridge.: MIT Press, 2022. 496 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-04683-1; $120.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36933-6.

Reviewed by Kuan-Hung Lo (University of Maryland) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (March, 2023) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Author: 
Bradley R. Clampitt
Reviewer: 
Cecily Zander

Zander on Clampitt, 'Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)'

Bradley R. Clampitt. Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. 324 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7716-7

Author: 
Stephanie Rutherford
Reviewer: 
Nancy Langston

Langston on Rutherford, 'Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada'

Stephanie Rutherford. Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 256 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01107-1; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01108-8

Author: 
Edward Slavishak
Reviewer: 
Hannah Conway

Conway on Slavishak, 'Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes'

Edward Slavishak. Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 232 pp. $52.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2539-9.

Reviewed by Hannah Conway (Havard University) Published on H-Environment (March, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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Author: 
Alan D. Gaff, Donald H. Gaff, eds.
Reviewer: 
Paul Springer

Springer on Gaff and Gaff, 'From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches from James L. Freaner, Writing under the Pen Name "Mustang"'

Alan D. Gaff, Donald H. Gaff, eds. From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches from James L. Freaner, Writing under the Pen Name "Mustang". Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2019. 477 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-767-8

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