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Author:

Gearóid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy

Reviewer:

Nicholas Sambaluk

Sambaluk on Barry and Dal Lago and Healy, 'Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I'

Gearóid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy. Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I. History of Warfare Series. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xii + 303 pp. $156.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-31001-8; $156.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-29296-3.

Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Mark A. Snell

Reviewer:

Bradley Podliska

Podliska on Snell, 'My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place'

Mark A. Snell. My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-293-9.

Reviewed by Bradley Podliska (Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Keir A. Lieber, Daryl Grayson Press

Reviewer:

John Gishbaugher

Gishbaugher on Lieber and Press, 'The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age'

Keir A. Lieber, Daryl Grayson Press. The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 180 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4929-2.

Author:

Ezequiel Mercau

Reviewer:

Aaron Coy Moulton

Moulton on Mercau, 'The Falklands War: An Imperial History'

Ezequiel Mercau. The Falklands War: An Imperial History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48329-2.

Reviewed by Aaron Coy Moulton (Stephen F. Austin State University) Published on H-LatAm (December, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55914

Author:

Zeb Tortorici

Reviewer:

Chad Black

Black on Tortorici, 'Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain'

Zeb Tortorici. Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 344 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-7154-0; $104.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-7132-8.

Reviewed by Chad Black (University of Tennessee) Published on H-LatAm (December, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Barbara Oberg, ed.

Reviewer:

Jessica J. Sheets

Sheets on Oberg, 'Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World'

Barbara Oberg, ed. Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 280 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4259-9.

Author:

Sarah Cameron

Reviewer:

Aaron Hale-Dorrell

Hale-Dorrell on Cameron, 'The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan'

Sarah Cameron. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 294 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3043-6.

Reviewed by Aaron Hale-Dorrell (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Environment (December, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Karen Patterson, ed.

Reviewer:

Erica Warren

Warren on Patterson, 'Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe'

Karen Patterson, ed. Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Illustrations. 304 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-66483-5.

Reviewed by Erica Warren (Art Institute of Chicago) Published on H-Material-Culture (December, 2020) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)

Author:

Petteri Pietikäinen, Jesper Vaczy Kragh, eds.

Reviewer:

Anna Derksen

Derksen on Pietikäinen and Kragh, 'Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe'

Petteri Pietikäinen, Jesper Vaczy Kragh, eds. Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe. Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Series. London: Routledge, 2019. 228 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-36169-0.

Author:

Ilan Kapoor

Reviewer:

Douglas Leonard

Leonard on Kapoor, 'Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development'

Ilan Kapoor. Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xvi + 307 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5175-2; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5172-1.

Reviewed by Douglas Leonard (USAF Academy) Published on H-Africa (December, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Author:

Ronald V. Morris

Reviewer:

Elizabeth Grennan Browning

Browning on Morris, 'Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town'

Ronald V. Morris. Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. Illustrations, tables, graphs. 224 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-268-10661-4.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Grennan Browning (Indiana University) Published on H-Environment (December, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Joris Mercelis

Reviewer:

Robert Gordon-Fogelson

Gordon-Fogelson on Mercelis, 'Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention'

Joris Mercelis. Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention. Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. 378 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-53869-5.

Author:

Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon, eds.

Reviewer:

Elizabeth M. Reese

Reese on Finkelman and Kennon, 'Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front'

Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon, eds. Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. vi + 226 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2338-7.

Author:

Jane H. Hong

Reviewer:

Heather R. Lee

Lee on Hong, 'Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion'

Jane H. Hong. Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Illustrations. 280 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5336-5; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5335-8.

Reviewed by Heather R. Lee (NYU Shanghai) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Philippe Le Goff

Reviewer:

Shelby Shapiro

Shapiro on Goff, 'Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment'

Philippe Le Goff. Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. 273 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-07679-2.

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

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55581

Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Sambaluk on Barry and Dal Lago and Healy, 'Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I'

Podliska on Snell, 'My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place'

Gishbaugher on Lieber and Press, 'The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age'

Moulton on Mercau, 'The Falklands War: An Imperial History'

Black on Tortorici, 'Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain'

Sheets on Oberg, 'Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World'

Hale-Dorrell on Cameron, 'The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan'

Warren on Patterson, 'Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe'

Derksen on Pietikäinen and Kragh, 'Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe'

Leonard on Kapoor, 'Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development'

Browning on Morris, 'Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town'

Gordon-Fogelson on Mercelis, 'Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention'

Reese on Finkelman and Kennon, 'Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front'

Lee on Hong, 'Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion'

Shapiro on Goff, 'Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment'

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