Gary Clayton Anderson. Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. 384 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-6434-2.
Reviewed by Jimmy Sweet (Rutgers University) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2020) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
George Y. Kohler. Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820-1880): The Foundation of an Academic Discipline. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 282 pp. $114.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-062037-5.
Reviewed by Ori Werdiger (University of Chicago) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Dmitry Adamsky. Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 376 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0805-4.
Reviewed by Joseph Torigian (American University) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Tamara Gene Myers. Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. xiii + 253 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5893-9; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5892-2.
Reviewed by Clayton A. Hartjen (Rutgers University at Newark) Published on H-Socialisms (April, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Heather D. Curtis. Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 370 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73736-5.
Reviewed by Michael Barnett (George Washington University) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Pavlína Rychterová, Gábor Klaniczay, Paweł Kras, Walter Pohl, eds. Times of Upheaval: Four Medievalists in Twentieth-Century Central Europe. Conversations with Jerzy Kłoczowski, János M. Bak, František Šmahel, and Herwig Wolfram. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019. 390 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-963-386-305-3.
Lori Boornazian Diel. The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Illustrations. x + 216 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-1673-3.
Reviewed by Catherine DiCesare (Colorado State University) Published on H-LatAm (April, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Johnhenry Gonzalez. Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 320 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23008-6.Jean Alix René. Haiti après l'esclavage: Formation de l'état et culture politique populaire (1804-1846). Port-au-Prince: Editions Le Natal, 2019. 453 pp. n.p. (paper), ISBN 978-999706514-8.
Harry N. K. Odamtten. Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019. 292 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-320-8.
Reviewed by Andrew E. Barnes (Arizona State University) Published on H-Africa (April, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
John M. Belohlavek. Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 306 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3990-2.
Reviewed by Leonne M. Hudson (Kent State) Published on H-War (April, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Jack L. Schwartzwald. The Rise of the Nation-State in Europe: Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution, 1603-1815. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 275 pp. $65.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6547-4.
Reviewed by Stephen Lazer (Arizona State University) Published on H-War (April, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Andrew Lambert. Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23004-8.
Reviewed by Ryan Wadle (Air University, eSchool of Graduate PME) Published on H-War (April, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Julia Gaffield, ed. The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context and Legacy. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. 296 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3788-5.
Reviewed by Andrew Maginn (Howard University) Published on H-Nationalism (April, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Erna Brodber. Moments of Cooperation and Incorporation: African American and African Jamaican Connections, 1782-1996. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. xv + 184 pp. $50.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-708-7.
Reviewed by Justin Iverson (Northern Illinois University) Published on H-Slavery (April, 2020) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, Heidi Tworek, eds. International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Exorbitant Expectations. Routledge Studies in Modern History. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 256 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-30308-9.
Reviewed by Aaron Ackerley (University of Sheffield) Published on Jhistory (April, 2020) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
