Lenora Warren.
Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. 169 pp.
$34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68448-017-3. 
Reviewed by Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Noel Rae.
The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery.
New York: Overlook Press, 2018. Illustrations. 624 pp.
$40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4683-1513-4.
Reviewed by Evan A. Turiano (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Kenneth B. Moss.
Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private War.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 464 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2775-2.
Reviewed by Christopher Weimar (Air University) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Kara Dixon Vuic.
The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 382 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98638-1.
Reviewed by Lisa Beckenbaugh (Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
William J. Plott.
Black Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 345 pp.
$49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7788-0.
Reviewed by David Lee McMullen (UNC Charlotte) Published on H-Florida (June, 2020) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Northern Illinois University)
Cynthia Nicoletti.
Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 358 pp.
$29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-40153-1.
Reviewed by Claire Wolnisty (Department of History) Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Thomas J. Brown. Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 384 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5374-7.
Reviewed by Rory T. Cornish (Winthrop University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54952
Willi Goetschel.
Heine and Critical Theory.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xii + 311 pp.
$114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-08729-3.
Reviewed by Martin Shuster (Goucher College) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Kirsten L. Ziomek.
Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. xix + 406 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-23728-5.
Reviewed by Brian W. Platt (George Mason University) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Sean Brady, Mark Seymour, eds. From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 264 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-02392-5.
Reviewed by Andrija Filipovic (Singidunum University, Belgrade) Published on H-Socialisms (June, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Brenden W. Rensink.
Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.
Connecting the Greater West Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018. Illustrations. xv + 300 pp.
$40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62349-655-5.
Megan A. Styles. Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Illustrations, map, charts. 256 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74650-0; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74651-7.
Reviewed by Thaddeus Sunseri (Colorado State University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Lindsey B. Green-Simms. Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Illustrations. 280 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0114-1; $112.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0113-4.
Reviewed by Martha Lagace (Boston University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Julia Pauli.
The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community.
Culture and Social Practice Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2019. xiii + 296 pp.
$55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-4303-9.
Reviewed by Meredith McKittrick (Georgetown University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Simon Forty, Leo Marriott, George Forty.
The Normandy Battlefields: Bocage and Breakout: From the Beaches to the Falaise Gap.
Havermate: Casemate Books, 2016. 192 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61200-419-8.
Reviewed by Toby Clark (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
