Reviews

Bruce O. Riedel. Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2020. 136 pp. $24.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8157-3729-2.

Reviewed by Sean Scanlon (University of Nebraska) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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Angelos Chaniotis. Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 480 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-65964-3. 

Reviewed by Joseph Frechette (University of Maryland) Published on H-Empire (December, 2020) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Ronen Steinberg. The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 240 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-3924-8. 

Reviewed by Erica Edwards (Francis Marion University) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Matthew W. King. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 304 pp. $64.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-54922-6; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19106-7.

Reviewed by Brenton Sullivan (Colgate University) Published on H-Buddhism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)

Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN). Black Central Europe. blackcentraleurope.com: Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN), 2014. A website combining teaching and research resources, the work of Black artists, and facilitation of conversations among stakeholders on Black people in Central European history.

Reviewed by Samuel Ludwig (Universite de Haute-Alsace) Published on H-TGS (December, 2020) Commissioned by Jeremy Best (Iowa State University)

Jacob Blumenfeld. All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. Winchester: Zero Books, 2018. 155 pp. $17.46 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78099-663-9. 

Reviewed by Wayne Price (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Socialisms (December, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Christopher W. Calvo. The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 308 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6633-2. 

Reviewed by Kimberly B. Sherman (Cape Fear Community College) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)