William Caferro. Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 238 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42401-1.
Reviewed by Adam Franklin-Lyons (Emerson College) Published on H-War (December, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55930
Amy D. Propen.
Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene.
New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2018. Illustrations. xv + 192 pp.
$59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1377-3; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8142-5492-9. 
David Fedman. Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xvii + 292 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74745-3.
Reviewed by Timothy Yang (University of Georgia) Published on H-Japan (November, 2021) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
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Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador. American Encounters/Global Interactions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Illustrations. xi + 317 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1138-5; $104.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1035-7.
Reviewed by David M. K. Sheinin (Trent University) Published on H-LatAm (November, 2021) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Kent Masterson Brown.
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command.
Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 488 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6199-5.
Nik Ribianszky. Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021. 286 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-6012-6.
Reviewed by Christian Pinnen (Mississippi College) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2021) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)
Matthew Christopher Hulbert. The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West. UnCivil Wars Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. Illustrations. 344 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-5002-8; $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-5001-1.
Reviewed by Jacob S. Clawson (Auburn University) Published on H-War (November, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Thomas Howell.
Soldiers of the Pen: The Writers' War Board in World War II.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. 336 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-387-1.
Andreas Umland, Felix Ackerman, Michael Galbas, Uilleam Blacker, eds. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Double Special Issue: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans, vol. 1, no. 2 (2015). Stuttgart: ibidem, 2016. 250 pp. $39.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-0806-0.
Reviewed by James Fancher (University of North Texas) Published on H-War (November, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Christopher McKee.
Ungentle Goodnights: Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2018. Illustrations. 352 pp.
$34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59114-573-8.
James Tackach.
Lincoln and the Natural Environment.
Concise Lincoln Library Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp.
$24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3698-2.
Leslie Anne Hadfield. A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa. Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33120-7.
Reviewed by Matt Heaton (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Africa (November, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Stephen M. Underhill. The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020. 354 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-346-8.
Reviewed by Caley Hewitt (Louisiana State University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2021) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
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Robert M. Myers.
Reconciling Nature: Literary Representations of the Natural, 1876-1945.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. Illustrations. 234 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7679-7.
W. Puck Brecher. Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xx + 364 pp. $157.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-44754-7.
Reviewed by Katalin Ferber (Retired from Waseda University, Freelance writer) Published on H-Japan (November, 2021) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
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