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Author:

Mario Mieli

Reviewer:

Andrija Filipovic

Filipovic on Mieli, 'Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique'

Mario Mieli. Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique. London: Pluto Press, 2018. 321 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7453-9951-5.

Reviewed by Andrija Filipovic (Faculty of Media and Communications - Belgrade) Published on H-Socialisms (March, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

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Author:

Levi McLaughlin

Reviewer:

Daniel Metraux

Metraux on McLaughlin, 'Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan'

Levi McLaughlin. Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. 236 pp. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7542-8.

Reviewed by Daniel Metraux (Mary Baldwin University) Published on H-Japan (March, 2019) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)

Author:

Richard Goette

Reviewer:

Andrea Charron

Charron on Goette, 'Sovereignty and Command in Canada-US Continental Air Defence, 1940-57'

Richard Goette. Sovereignty and Command in Canada-US Continental Air Defence, 1940-57. Studies in Canadian Military History Series. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Illustrations. xvii + 290 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-3687-6.

Reviewed by Andrea Charron (University of Manitoba) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jacqueline Emery

Reviewer:

Steve Amerman

Amerman on Emery, 'Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press'

Jacqueline Emery. Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 336 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-7675-8.

Reviewed by Steve Amerman (Southern Connecticut State University) Published on H-AmIndian (March, 2019) Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Author:

Carol Berkin

Reviewer:

Elana Krischer

Krischer on Berkin, 'A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'

Carol Berkin. A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 320 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-06088-7.

Reviewed by Elana Krischer (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Jonathan M. Steplyk

Reviewer:

John G. Selby

Selby on Steplyk, 'Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat'

Jonathan M. Steplyk. Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2628-1.

Reviewed by John G. Selby (Roanoke College) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

James O'Neill

Reviewer:

Edward Tenace

Tenace on O'Neill, 'The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution'

James O'Neill. The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. 336 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-636-8.

Reviewed by Edward Tenace (Lyon College) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

Reviewer:

Susan Colbourn

Colbourn on Hatzivassiliou, 'The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969-1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment'

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou. The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969-1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 287 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-53846-4; $84.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-319-53847-1.

Reviewed by Susan Colbourn (Yale University) Published on H-FedHist (March, 2019) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Author:

Elliot R. Wolfson

Reviewer:

Martin Kavka

Kavka on Wolfson, 'The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other'

Elliot R. Wolfson. The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxiii + 312 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18563-9; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-18562-2.

Reviewed by Martin Kavka (Florida State University) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2019) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author:

Caitilin J. Griffiths

Reviewer:

Matthew Mitchell

Mitchell on Griffiths, 'Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan'

Caitilin J. Griffiths. Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan. Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. xiii + 214 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-5936-7.

Reviewed by Matthew Mitchell (Allegheny College) Published on H-Japan (March, 2019) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)

Author:

Joan E. Cashin, ed.

Reviewer:

John Coski

Coski on Cashin, 'War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era'

Joan E. Cashin, ed. War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 280 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4319-9; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4320-5.

Reviewed by John Coski (American Civil War Museum) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Author:

Lew Freedman

Reviewer:

Ryan Pettengill

Pettengill on Freedman, 'Connie Mack's First Dynasty: The Philadelphia Athletics, 1910-1914'

Lew Freedman. Connie Mack's First Dynasty: The Philadelphia Athletics, 1910-1914. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. Illustrations. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9627-3.

Reviewed by Ryan Pettengill (Mountain View College) Published on H-Pennsylvania (March, 2019) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Author:

Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, Kim E. Nielsen, eds.

Reviewer:

Emmeline Burdett

Burdett on Rembis and Kudlick and Nielsen, 'The Oxford Handbook of Disability History'

Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, Kim E. Nielsen, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Disability History. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 552 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-023495-9.

Reviewed by Emmeline Burdett (University College London) Published on H-Disability (March, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Stephen E. Lewis

Reviewer:

Joshua C. Walker

Walker on Lewis, 'Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project'

Stephen E. Lewis. Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. 360 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8263-5902-5.

Reviewed by Joshua C. Walker (Bard High School Early College Cleveland) Published on H-LatAm (March, 2019) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Debjani Bhattacharyya

Reviewer:

Rohan D'Souza

D'Souza on Bhattacharyya, 'Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta'

Debjani Bhattacharyya. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 254 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42574-2.

Reviewed by Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University) Published on H-Water (March, 2019) Commissioned by Aditya Ramesh (SOAS, London)

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Filipovic on Mieli, 'Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique'

Metraux on McLaughlin, 'Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan'

Charron on Goette, 'Sovereignty and Command in Canada-US Continental Air Defence, 1940-57'

Amerman on Emery, 'Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press'

Krischer on Berkin, 'A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'

Selby on Steplyk, 'Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat'

Tenace on O'Neill, 'The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution'

Colbourn on Hatzivassiliou, 'The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969-1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment'

Kavka on Wolfson, 'The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other'

Mitchell on Griffiths, 'Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan'

Coski on Cashin, 'War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era'

Pettengill on Freedman, 'Connie Mack's First Dynasty: The Philadelphia Athletics, 1910-1914'

Burdett on Rembis and Kudlick and Nielsen, 'The Oxford Handbook of Disability History'

Walker on Lewis, 'Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project'

D'Souza on Bhattacharyya, 'Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta'

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