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Author:

Sean Rhoads, Brooke McCorkle

Reviewer:

Andrea Horbinski

Horbinski on Rhoads and McCorkle, 'Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema'

Sean Rhoads, Brooke McCorkle. Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. 226 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6390-6.

Reviewed by Andrea Horbinski (Independant Scholar) Published on H-Environment (December, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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Author:

Ronald R. Rodgers

Reviewer:

Merritt Morgan

Morgan on Rodgers, 'The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923'

Ronald R. Rodgers. The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018. 348 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2158-2.

Reviewed by Merritt Morgan (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (December, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe

Author:

Evan Stoddard

Reviewer:

Aaron Cowan

Cowan on Stoddard, 'Transformed: Reinventing Pittsburgh's Industrial Sites for a New Century, 1975-1995'

Evan Stoddard. Transformed: Reinventing Pittsburgh's Industrial Sites for a New Century, 1975-1995. Pittsburgh: Harmony Street Publishers, 2016. Illustrations. 382 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9983996-0-7.

Reviewed by Aaron Cowan (Slippery Rock University) Published on H-Pennsylvania (December, 2021) Commissioned by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Author:

Peter Rollberg, Marlene Laruelle, eds.

Reviewer:

Alona Shestopalova

Shestopalova on Rollberg and Laruelle, 'Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism'

Peter Rollberg, Marlene Laruelle, eds. Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Series. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2018. 410 pp. $50.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1116-9.

Author:

Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson, eds.

Reviewer:

Gayle K. Brunelle

Brunelle on Blaufarb, 'The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History' and Desan and Hunt and Nelson, 'The French Revolution in Global Perspective'

Rafe Blaufarb, ed. The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 528 pp. $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-989796-4. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson, eds. The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. vi + 236 pp.

Author:

Marie A. Muschalek

Reviewer:

Oliver Owen

Owen on Muschalek, 'Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa'

Marie A. Muschalek. Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 255 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4285-9.

Reviewed by Oliver Owen (University of Oxford) Published on H-Africa (December, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Author:

Peter Iver Kaufman

Reviewer:

Ilaria Biano

Biano on Kaufman, 'On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization'

Peter Iver Kaufman. On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019. pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-567-68275-8.

Reviewed by Ilaria Biano (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Napoli) Published on H-History-and-Theory (December, 2021) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Author:

Thomas F. Curran

Reviewer:

Caroline Newhall

Newhall on Curran, 'Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice'

Thomas F. Curran. Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. 274 pp. $26.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3803-0.

Author:

Carolyn Smith-Morris

Reviewer:

Amy Hay

Hay on Smith-Morris, 'Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective'

Carolyn Smith-Morris. Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. 192 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978805-41-5.

Author:

Amnon Aran

Reviewer:

Ziv Rubinovitz

Rubinovitz on Aran, 'Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War'

Amnon Aran. Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 433 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-05249-9.

Reviewed by Ziv Rubinovitz (University of Haifa, Israel) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Marie S. Molloy

Reviewer:

Marcella Schute

Schute on Molloy, 'Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South'

Marie S. Molloy. Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018. x + 228 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-870-8.

Reviewed by Marcella Schute (Leiden University) Published on H-Slavery (December, 2021) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Author:

Peter W. Stahl, Fernando J. Astudillo, Ross W. Jamieson, Diego Quiroga, Florencio Delgado

Reviewer:

Charlotte Jarvis

Jarvis on Stahl and Astudillo and Jamieson and Quiroga and Delgado, 'Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation'

Peter W. Stahl, Fernando J. Astudillo, Ross W. Jamieson, Diego Quiroga, Florencio Delgado. Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation. Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 240 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6627-1.

Author:

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn

Reviewer:

Angela Cope

Cope on Prince-Ruiz and Finn, 'Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters'

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn. Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19862-2; $27.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-55272-1.

Author:

Mary Louise Roberts

Reviewer:

Richard Fogarty

Fogarty on Roberts, 'Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII'

Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 199 pages. $22.70 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-75314-0.

Reviewed by Richard Fogarty (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-War (December, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Felix Römer

Reviewer:

Robert Kirchubel

Kirchubel on Römer, 'Comrades: The Wehrmacht from Within'

Felix Römer. Comrades: The Wehrmacht from Within. Translated by Alex J. Kay. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 383 pp. $94.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-879709-8.

Reviewed by Robert Kirchubel (Purdue University) Published on H-War (December, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Horbinski on Rhoads and McCorkle, 'Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema'

Morgan on Rodgers, 'The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923'

Cowan on Stoddard, 'Transformed: Reinventing Pittsburgh's Industrial Sites for a New Century, 1975-1995'

Shestopalova on Rollberg and Laruelle, 'Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism'

Brunelle on Blaufarb, 'The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History' and Desan and Hunt and Nelson, 'The French Revolution in Global Perspective'

Owen on Muschalek, 'Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa'

Biano on Kaufman, 'On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity, and the Dark Arts of Civilization'

Newhall on Curran, 'Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice'

Hay on Smith-Morris, 'Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective'

Rubinovitz on Aran, 'Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War'

Schute on Molloy, 'Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South'

Jarvis on Stahl and Astudillo and Jamieson and Quiroga and Delgado, 'Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation'

Cope on Prince-Ruiz and Finn, 'Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters'

Fogarty on Roberts, 'Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII'

Kirchubel on Römer, 'Comrades: The Wehrmacht from Within'

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