Bruce A. Ragsdale.
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. vii + 358 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24638-6. 
Martyn Bond. Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 464 pp. $45.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-228-00702-9; $45.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00545-2.
Reviewed by Laura Almagor (University of Sheffield) Published on H-Biography (January, 2023) Commissioned by Daniel R. Meister (University of New Brunswick)
Sara E. Black.
Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Intoxicating Histories. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. 400 pp.
$42.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01164-4; $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01143-9.
Mark C. Dillon.
The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation.
SUNY American Constitutionalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. 336 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-8785-4.
Jeffrey K. Stine. Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America's Public Lands. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2021. 237 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-1-944466-46-6; Open Monographs (pdf), ISBN 978-1-944466-45-9.
Reviewed by Rachel S. Gross (University of Colorado-Denver) Published on H-Environment (January, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Michaela Mross.
Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen.
Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2022. Illustrations. xvii + 364 pp.
$68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-9273-9.
Anna Sailer.
Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s.
Critical Perspectives in South Asian History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xiii + 23 pp.
$115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-23353-9.
John Osborne, Peter Smeaton.
Out of the Studio: The Photographic Innovations of Charles and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad.
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 208 pp.
$49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01205-4.
Faisal Husain.
Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 264 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-754727-4.
Reviewed by Camille Cole (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Water (January, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Stan BH. Minh Tan-Tangbau.
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 320 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4968-3633-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-3634-2.
Anadelia A. Romo.
Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. Illustrations. xiv + 332 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2419-6.
Merlin Chowkwanyun. All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health. Studies in Social Medicine Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations. x + 336 pp.
Ralph Moffat. Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. 352 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-676-9.
Reviewed by Brian R. Price (Air University) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57761
Robert E. Cray.
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era (Interpreting the Civil War: Text and Contexts).
Kent: Kent State University Press, 2021. xi + 308 pp.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-424-7.
Jeremy Hicks. Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4650-2.
Reviewed by Patrick McColgan (San Diego State University) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
