Frances Harris. The General in Winter: The Marlborough-Godolphin Friendship and the Reign of Queen Anne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 432 pp. $45.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-880244-0.
Reviewed by Nigel Aston (University of Leicester) Published on H-Albion (May, 2018) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer College)
Renata Keller. Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 296 pp. $103.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-07958-8.
Reviewed by Courtney Kennedy (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-LatAm (May, 2018) Commissioned by Michele McArdle Stephens (West Virginia University)
Laurent Dubois. The Banjo: America's African Instrument. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04784-6.
Reviewed by Veronique Helenon (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Published on H-AfrArts (May, 2018) Commissioned by Jean M. Borgatti (Clark Univeristy)
Patricia Roberts-Miller. Demagoguery and Democracy. New York: Experiment, 2017. 135 pp. $9.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61519-408-7.
Reviewed by Ryan Skinnell (San Jose State University) Published on H-Rhetor (May, 2018) Commissioned by Cristen Fitzpatrick (St. John's University)
Edward A. Alpers. The Indian Ocean in World History. New Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 172 pp. Illustrations, maps. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-533787-7; $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-516593-7.
Reviewed by Mahmood KOORIA (Leiden University Institute for History) Published on H-Maritime (May, 2018) Commissioned by Donna Sinclair (Central Michigan University)
David Arbesú. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida: A New Manuscript. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. xii + 431 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6124-5.
Reviewed by Peter Ferdinando (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Published on H-Florida (May, 2018) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Northern Illinois University)
Richard McMahon. The Races of Europe: Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839-1939. London: Palgrave, 2016. 466 pp. $109.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-36319-9.
Reviewed by Cosmin Koszor Codrea (Oxford Brookes University) Published on H-Romania (May, 2018) Commissioned by R. Chris Davis (Lone Star College - Kingwood)
Gershon Baskin. In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017. 304 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8265-2181-1.
Reviewed by Anders Persson (Lund University) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Kenneth J. Vandevelde. The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: U.S. Postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii + 575 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-067957-6.
Reviewed by Armand de Mestral (McGill University) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Eric Rauchway. The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 336 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-04969-1.
Reviewed by Andrew Baker (Auburn University) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Stephan Lehnstedt. Occupation in the East: The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944. New York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016. 306 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-323-1.
Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (ACSC) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51501
Allan Kent Powell, ed. Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Illustrations. x + 421 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60781-510-5.
Reviewed by Michael Van Wagenen (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-War (May, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Dana E. Katz. The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 202 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-16514-4.
Reviewed by Flora Cassen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Paul Cronin, ed. A Time to Stir: Columbia '68. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 512 pp. $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-54433-7; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-18274-4.
Reviewed by Christopher A. Huff (Beacon College) Published on H-1960s (May, 2018) Commissioned by Zachary J. Lechner (Thomas Nelson Community College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51630
Francisca Cho. Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017. xi + 177 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6439-8; $20.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-6438-1.
Reviewed by Lina Verchery (Harvard University) Published on H-Buddhism (May, 2018) Commissioned by Rafal Stepien (University of Oxford)
