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Author:

Geneviève Dorais

Reviewer:

Leandro Sessa

Sessa on Dorais, 'Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945'

Geneviève Dorais. Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 266 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83804-7; $80.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-95224-8.

Reviewed by Leandro Sessa (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) Published on H-LatAm (December, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Andy Bruno

Reviewer:

Garret McDonald

McDonald on Bruno, 'Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy'

Andy Bruno. Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 305 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-84091-0.

Author:

Katell Berthelot

Reviewer:

Aidan Beatty

Beatty on Berthelot, 'Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel'

Katell Berthelot. Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 552 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-19929-0.

Author:

Jessica M. Smith

Reviewer:

Douglas Jones

Jones on Smith, 'Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility'

Jessica M. Smith. Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility. Engineering Studies Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. Illustrations. 328 pp. $65.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54216-6; $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36242-9; free (open access), ISBN 978-0-262-36615-1.

Reviewed by Douglas Jones (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (December, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Author:

Charlotte Ann Legg

Reviewer:

Timothy Roberts

Roberts on Legg, 'The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914'

Charlotte Ann Legg. The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2523-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0850-7.

Reviewed by Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University) Published on H-Empire (December, 2022) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Author:

Julie Flavell

Reviewer:

John G. McCurdy

McCurdy on Flavell, 'The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women behind Britain's Wars for America'

Julie Flavell. The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women behind Britain's Wars for America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021. xiii + 462 pp. Ill. $26.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-63149-061-3.

Author:

Trevor Rowley

Reviewer:

Sarah Davis-Secord

Davis-Secord on Rowley, 'The Normans: A History of Conquest'

Trevor Rowley. The Normans: A History of Conquest. New York: Pegasus Books, 2021. 224 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64313-634-9.

Reviewed by Sarah Davis-Secord (University of New Mexico) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Bruno Cabanes, ed.

Reviewer:

Jean-Michel Turcotte

Turcotte on Cabanes, 'Une histoire de la guerre: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours'

Bruno Cabanes, ed. Une histoire de la guerre: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2018. 800 pp. 32.00 € (paper), ISBN 978-2-02-128722-6.

Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Leibniz Institute for European History) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Thomas K. Robb, David James Gill

Reviewer:

Paxton Stover

Stover on Robb and Gill, 'Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War'

Thomas K. Robb, David James Gill. Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 288 pp. $35.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-4185-2; $53.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4184-5.

Reviewed by Paxton Stover (Kansas State University) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Daniel Scarborough

Reviewer:

Sebastian Rimestad

Rimestad on Scarborough, 'Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution'

Daniel Scarborough. Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 320 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33720-9.

Author:

Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

Reviewer:

Lorena Campuzano Duque

Campuzano Duque on Nobbs-Thiessen, 'Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present'

Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 342 pp. $37.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5610-6.

Author:

Brooke Schedneck

Reviewer:

Julia Cassaniti

Cassaniti and Harchis on Schedneck, 'Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks'

Brooke Schedneck. Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 242 pp. $28.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-295-74893-1; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74892-4.

Reviewed by Julia Cassaniti (Washington State University) and Braidynn M. Harchis (Washington State University) Published on H-Buddhism (December, 2022) Commissioned by Ben Van Overmeire (Duke Kunshan University)

Author:

Joseph O. Chapa

Reviewer:

John R. Emery

Emery on Chapa, 'Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles'

Joseph O. Chapa. Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. 336 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5417-7445-2.

Author:

Dael A. Norwood

Reviewer:

Mark Markov

Markov on Norwood, 'Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America'

Dael A. Norwood. Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Illustrations. 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-81558-9.

Author:

Mark Gamsa

Reviewer:

Stig Thøgersen

Thøgersen on Gamsa, 'Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography'

Mark Gamsa. Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 394 pp. $42.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4875-4424-9.

Reviewed by Stig Thøgersen (Aarhus University) Published on H-Biography (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniel R. Meister (University of New Brunswick)

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Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Sessa on Dorais, 'Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945'

McDonald on Bruno, 'Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy'

Beatty on Berthelot, 'Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel'

Jones on Smith, 'Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility'

Roberts on Legg, 'The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914'

McCurdy on Flavell, 'The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women behind Britain's Wars for America'

Davis-Secord on Rowley, 'The Normans: A History of Conquest'

Turcotte on Cabanes, 'Une histoire de la guerre: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours'

Stover on Robb and Gill, 'Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War'

Rimestad on Scarborough, 'Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution'

Campuzano Duque on Nobbs-Thiessen, 'Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present'

Cassaniti and Harchis on Schedneck, 'Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks'

Emery on Chapa, 'Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles'

Markov on Norwood, 'Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America'

Thøgersen on Gamsa, 'Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography'

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