Ian S. Markham, Christy Lohr Sapp, eds. A World Religions Reader. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2020. 408 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-119-35709-4.
Reviewed by Claire Maes (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (January, 2021) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55420
Jennifer A. Thompson, Joseph J. Rishel, Eileen Owens, Timothy Rub, eds.
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 216 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87633-289-4. 
Joseph J. Walsh.
The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City.
Witness to Ancient History Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 192 pp.
$59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-3370-7; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-3371-4.
Robert Burroughs, Richard Huzzey, eds.
The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade: British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion.
Studies in Imperialism Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. viii + 216 pp.
$120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8511-6.
Erica Heinsen-Roach. Consuls and Captives: Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe Series. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020. 258 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-974-6.
Reviewed by Maurits A. Ebben (Leiden University) Published on H-Africa (December, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
David Prior. Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-6968-1.
Reviewed by Brooks T. Swett (Columbia University) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2020) Commissioned by William S. Cossen (The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology)
Noah Weisbord. Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats. Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $35.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-19135-5; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-16987-3.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
James G. Patterson.
In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland after 1798.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. vi + 202 pp.
$84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7693-0.
Reviewed by Matt Zembo (Hudson Valley Community College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
John A. Gentry, Joseph S. Gordon. Strategic Warning Intelligence: History, Challenges, and Prospects. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 274 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-655-4.
Reviewed by Scott Moseman (Kansas State University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Christine Walker. Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire. Williamsburg: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 336 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5879-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5526-0.
Reviewed by Alexandra M. Macdonald (William & Mary) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy. Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean. Disability Histories Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Illustrations. 244 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08506-2; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04319-2.
Reviewed by Dea Boster (Columbus State Community College) Published on H-Disability (December, 2020) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Jack E. Davis.
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
New York: Liveright, 2017. x + 592 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87140-866-2.
Reviewed by William D. Bryan (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Alan Rems. South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds. Washington, DC: Naval Institute Press, 2014. 312 pp. $38.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-471-0; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61251-944-9.
Reviewed by Luke Truxal (Columbia State Community College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Anna Fifield.
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un.
New York: Hachette Book Group, 2020. 336 pp.
$17.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5293-8725-4.
Reviewed by Paul Moreshead (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Nikolay Antov. The Ottoman "Wild West": The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 342 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18263-9.
Reviewed by Nathan Michalewicz (George Mason University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
