Kristopher A. Teters. Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 240 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3886-7.
Reviewed by Roy "Trae" Wisecarver (Texas A&M University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Alice Elizabeth Malavasic. The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 280 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3552-1; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3647-4.
Reviewed by Ginette Aley (Kansas State University) Published on H-FedHist (March, 2019) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)
Andrew Robarts. Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region: Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xii + 280 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-5949-1.
Reviewed by Lucien J. Frary (Rider University) Published on H-Russia (March, 2019) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych
Richard S. Grayson. Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 484 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-02925-5.
Reviewed by Jay Winter (Yale University) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Jesper Bjarnesen, eds. Violence in African Elections: Between Democracy and Big Man Politics. Africa Now Series. London: Zed Books, 2018. 320 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78699-228-4; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78699-229-1.
Reviewed by Adam LoBue (University of Illinois) Published on H-Socialisms (March, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Lawrence S. Kaplan. Harold Stassen: Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament. Studies In Conflict Diplomacy Peace Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. 212 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-7486-0.
Reviewed by David Walker (Boise State University) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Andrew Orr. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xxvi + 192 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02677-4; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-02630-9.
Reviewed by Abigail Lewis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Benjamin Ziemann. Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving. Translated by Andrew Evans. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 320 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-3958-5.
Reviewed by Matthew Hershey (University of Michigan) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Lynn Hunt, Jack Richard Censer. The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xiii + 236 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1371-4.
Reviewed by Frederick Black (USMA) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Jake H. Davis, ed. A Mirror Is for Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxv + 358 pp. $38.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-049976-1.
Reviewed by Jonathan C. Gold (Princeton University) Published on H-Buddhism (March, 2019) Commissioned by Rafal Stepien (Heidelberg University)
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Earl J. Hess. Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 408 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4342-7.
Reviewed by Thomas Army (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Adheesh A. Sathaye. Crossing the Lines of Caste: Visvamitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 336 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-934111-5.
Reviewed by Swami Narasimhananda (Prabuddha Bharata) Published on H-Asia (March, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Éva Forgács. Hungarian Art: Confrontation and Revival in the Modern Movement. Los Angeles: Dopplehouse Press, 2016. 303 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9970034-1-3.
Reviewed by Beata Hock (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa-GWZO) Published on H-SHERA (March, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Douglas Osto. Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xxvi + 300 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17730-6.
Reviewed by Mavis Fenn (University of Waterloo) Published on H-Buddhism (March, 2019) Commissioned by John Powers (Deakin University)
Angela Lampe, ed. Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922. London: Prestel Publishing, 2018. Illustrations. 285 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-7913-5807-9.
Reviewed by Victor Martinovich (European Humanities University) Published on H-SHERA (March, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
