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Author:

Keren Weitzberg

Reviewer:

Francesca Declich

Declich on Weitzberg, 'We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya'

Keren Weitzberg. We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. xiii + 274 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2258-8; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2259-5.

Reviewed by Francesca Declich (University of Urbino) Published on H-IslamInAfrica (February, 2019) Commissioned by Saarah Jappie (University of the Witwatersrand)

Author:

Marie Hicks

Reviewer:

Jonnie Penn

Penn on Hicks, 'Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing'

Marie Hicks. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. History of Computing Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017. 352 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-03554-5.

Reviewed by Jonnie Penn (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (February, 2019) Commissioned by Dominic J. Berry (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Author:

Brian D. Laslie

Reviewer:

Heather P. Venable

Venable on Laslie, 'Architect of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force'

Brian D. Laslie. Architect of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force. American Warrior Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. Illustrations. 254 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6998-9.

Reviewed by Heather P. Venable (Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (February, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Quintin Barry

Reviewer:

Jon Ault

Ault on Barry, 'Disputed Victory: Schley, Sampson and the Spanish-American War of 1898'

Quintin Barry. Disputed Victory: Schley, Sampson and the Spanish-American War of 1898. Solihull, UK: Helion and Company, 2018. 280 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-912174-91-1.

Reviewed by Jon Ault (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (February, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Daniel Ellsberg

Reviewer:

Jonathan Burdick

Burdick on Ellsberg, 'The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner'

Daniel Ellsberg. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. 420 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60819-670-8.

Reviewed by Jonathan Burdick (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (February, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Asad Haider

Reviewer:

Timothy Hodgdon

Hodgdon on Haider, 'Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump'

Asad Haider. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018. 144 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78663-737-6.

Reviewed by Timothy Hodgdon Published on H-Ideas (February, 2019) Commissioned by Aidan Beatty (University of Pittsburgh)

Author:

Dustin Galer

Reviewer:

Jason Ellis

Ellis on Galer, 'Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada'

Dustin Galer. Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 328 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4875-2130-1; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0131-0.

Reviewed by Jason Ellis (University of British Columbia) Published on H-Disability (February, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Roger Gilles

Reviewer:

Samantha White

White on Gilles, 'Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing'

Roger Gilles. Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Illustrations. 360 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0417-2; $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-1041-8.

Reviewed by Samantha White (Rutgers University-Camden) Published on H-SHGAPE (February, 2019) Commissioned by William S. Cossen (The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology)

Author:

Roy Tzohar

Reviewer:

Matthew Orsborn

Orsborn on Tzohar, 'A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor'

Roy Tzohar. A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-066439-8.

Reviewed by Matthew Orsborn (Mahidol University) Published on H-Buddhism (February, 2019) Commissioned by Rafal Stepien (Heidelberg University)

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Author:

Dorene Koehler

Reviewer:

Matthew H. Brittingham

Brittingham on Koehler, 'The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland'

Dorene Koehler. The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland. Bloomington: John Libbey Publishing, 2017. 180 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-86196-727-8.

Reviewed by Matthew H. Brittingham (Emory University) Published on H-Celebration (February, 2019) Commissioned by Linda Levitt (Stephen F. Austin State University)

Author:

Glenn Diesen

Reviewer:

Roger Chapman

Chapman on Diesen, 'The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft'

Glenn Diesen. The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Rethinking Asia and International Relations Series. New York: Routledge, 2018. 218 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-50032-7.

Reviewed by Roger Chapman (Palm Beach Atlantic University) Published on H-Russia (February, 2019) Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Author:

Clayton Nall

Reviewer:

Bruce Seely

Seely on Nall, 'The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities'

Clayton Nall. The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 170 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-41759-4.

Reviewed by Bruce Seely (Michigan Technological University) Published on H-FedHist (February, 2019) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Author:

Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, Bernard Susser

Reviewer:

Yehuda Magid

Magid on Hellinger and Hershkowitz and Susser, 'Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience'

Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, Bernard Susser. Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience. New York: State University of New York Press, 2018. 348 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6839-6.

Reviewed by Yehuda Magid (Indiana University Bloomington) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2019) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author:

Jessica Lynne Pearson

Reviewer:

Margaret Andersen

Andersen on Pearson, 'The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa'

Jessica Lynne Pearson. The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. Illustrations, tables. 272 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98048-8.

Reviewed by Margaret Andersen (University of Tennessee Knoxville) Published on H-Diplo (February, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Renisa Mawani

Reviewer:

Fahad Bishara

Bishara on Mawani, 'Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire'

Renisa Mawani. Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire. Global and Insurgent Legalities Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 352 pp. $104.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-7027-7; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-7035-2.

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Declich on Weitzberg, 'We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya'

Penn on Hicks, 'Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing'

Venable on Laslie, 'Architect of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force'

Ault on Barry, 'Disputed Victory: Schley, Sampson and the Spanish-American War of 1898'

Burdick on Ellsberg, 'The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner'

Hodgdon on Haider, 'Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump'

Ellis on Galer, 'Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada'

White on Gilles, 'Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing'

Orsborn on Tzohar, 'A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor'

Brittingham on Koehler, 'The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland'

Chapman on Diesen, 'The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft'

Seely on Nall, 'The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities'

Magid on Hellinger and Hershkowitz and Susser, 'Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience'

Andersen on Pearson, 'The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa'

Bishara on Mawani, 'Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire'

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