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Author:

Steven Seegel

Reviewer:

Patrice M. Dabrowski

Dabrowski on Seegel, 'Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe'

Steven Seegel. Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Illustrations. xv + 346 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-43849-8.

Reviewed by Patrice M. Dabrowski Published on H-Poland (November, 2018) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author:

Grant Madsen

Reviewer:

Ronald W. Cox

Cox on Madsen, 'Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II'

Grant Madsen. Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. PP. ISBN 978-0-8122-5036-7.

Reviewed by Ronald W. Cox (Florida International University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Hannah Priest, ed.

Reviewer:

Svitlana Krys

Krys on Priest, 'She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves'

Hannah Priest, ed. She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 231 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5261-1689-5.

Reviewed by Svitlana Krys (MacEwan University) Published on H-SHERA (November, 2018) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (Independent scholar/Alberta College of Art + Design)

Author:

Peter J. Dean

Reviewer:

Andrew N. Buchanan

Buchanan on Dean, 'MacArthur's Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945'

Peter J. Dean. MacArthur's Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 496 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2604-5.

Reviewed by Andrew N. Buchanan (University of Vermont) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Thomas Malcomson

Reviewer:

J. Ross Dancy

Dancy on Malcomson, 'Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging'

Thomas Malcomson. Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2016. 304 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-119-1.

Reviewed by J. Ross Dancy (US Naval War College) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Author:

David Waldstreicher, ed.

Reviewer:

Rhonda Barlow

Barlow on Waldstreicher, 'A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams'

David Waldstreicher, ed. A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Blackwell Companions to American History Series. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 584 pp. $171.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-118-52429-9; $213.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-470-65558-0.

Reviewed by Rhonda Barlow (University of Virginia) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Ralph A. Houlbrooke

Reviewer:

Eleanor Hubbard

Hubbard on Houlbrooke, 'Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England: Two Families and a Failed Marriage'

Ralph A. Houlbrooke. Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England: Two Families and a Failed Marriage. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2018. 256 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-240-2.

Reviewed by Eleanor Hubbard (Princeton University) Published on H-Albion (November, 2018) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer College)

Author:

Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martínez, Scott Whiteford, eds.

Reviewer:

Charles Heath

Heath on Slack and Martínez and Whiteford, 'The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border'

Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martínez, Scott Whiteford, eds. The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. xiii + 243 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-3559-0.

Reviewed by Charles Heath (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-Borderlands (November, 2018) Commissioned by Maria de los Angeles Picone (Emory University)

Author:

Michael A. McDonnell

Reviewer:

Joshua J. Jeffers

Jeffers on McDonnell, 'Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America'

Michael A. McDonnell. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2015. Maps. 416 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-2953-2.

Reviewed by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University) Published on H-Midwest (November, 2018) Commissioned by Patrick A. Pospisek (Grand Valley State University)

Author:

Lorraine Bayard de Volo

Reviewer:

Jennifer Triplett

Triplett on Bayard de Volo, 'Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory'

Lorraine Bayard de Volo. Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xi + 272 pp. $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63084-6.

Reviewed by Jennifer Triplett (University of Michigan) Published on H-LatAm (November, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Ian Peter Grohse

Reviewer:

Daan Keijser

Keijser on Grohse, 'Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North: The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470'

Ian Peter Grohse. Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North: The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470. Northern World Series. Leiden: Brill Academic Publisers, 2017. 300 pp. $121.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-34253-8.

Reviewed by Daan Keijser (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Medieval (November, 2018) Commissioned by Camilla Sponza

Author:

Heather H. Vacek

Reviewer:

Corrine C. Bertram

Bertram on Vacek, 'Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness'

Heather H. Vacek. Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2015. 283 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4813-0057-5.

Reviewed by Corrine C. Bertram (Shippensburg University) Published on H-Disability (November, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

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Author:

Martin Ingram

Reviewer:

Brodie Waddell

Waddell on Ingram, 'Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600'

Martin Ingram. Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 340 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63173-7.

Reviewed by Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck, University of London) Published on H-Histsex (November, 2018) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer College)

Author:

Moeed Yusuf

Reviewer:

Swarna Rajagopalan

Rajagopalan on Yusuf, 'Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia'

Moeed Yusuf. Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0485-8.

Reviewed by Swarna Rajagopalan (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Yiğit Akın

Reviewer:

Najwa Al-Qattan

Al-Qattan on Akın, 'When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire'

Yiğit Akın. When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. x + 270 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0363-9; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0490-2.

Reviewed by Najwa Al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Celebrating 25 Years Online

Dabrowski on Seegel, 'Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe'

Cox on Madsen, 'Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II'

Krys on Priest, 'She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves'

Buchanan on Dean, 'MacArthur's Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945'

Dancy on Malcomson, 'Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging'

Barlow on Waldstreicher, 'A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams'

Hubbard on Houlbrooke, 'Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England: Two Families and a Failed Marriage'

Heath on Slack and Martínez and Whiteford, 'The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border'

Jeffers on McDonnell, 'Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America'

Triplett on Bayard de Volo, 'Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory'

Keijser on Grohse, 'Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North: The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470'

Bertram on Vacek, 'Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness'

Waddell on Ingram, 'Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600'

Rajagopalan on Yusuf, 'Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia'

Al-Qattan on Akın, 'When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire'

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