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Author:

Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

Reviewer:

Robert E. McCoy

McCoy on Bechtol Jr., 'North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability'

Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. 274 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-7588-1.

Reviewed by Robert E. McCoy (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Chiara Ruffa

Reviewer:

B. K. Greener

Greener on Ruffa, 'Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations: Afghanistan and Lebanon'

Chiara Ruffa. Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations: Afghanistan and Lebanon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 204 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5018-3.

Reviewed by B. K. Greener (Massey University) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Mark Rice

Reviewer:

Lisa Covert

Covert on Rice, 'Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru'

Mark Rice. Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 252 pp. $22.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-4354-0; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4353-3; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4352-6.

Reviewed by Lisa Covert (College of Charleston) Published on H-LatAm (December, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Ellen D. Tillman

Reviewer:

Heather M. Salazar

Salazar on Tillman, 'Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic'

Ellen D. Tillman. Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 288 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2695-6.

Reviewed by Heather M. Salazar (Ohio University) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

S. J. Gunn

Reviewer:

Eric Klingelhofer

Klingelhofer on Gunn, 'The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII'

S. J. Gunn. The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 304 pp. $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-880286-0.

Reviewed by Eric Klingelhofer (Mercer University) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Author:

Christy Pichichero

Reviewer:

Jobie Turner

Turner on Pichichero, 'The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon'

Christy Pichichero. The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 318 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0929-6.

Reviewed by Jobie Turner (Air University) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Author:

J. van den Hout

Reviewer:

Christine Kooi

Kooi on Hout, 'Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America'

J. van den Hout. Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018. xvi + 203 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6922-5.

Reviewed by Christine Kooi (LSU) Published on H-Low-Countries (December, 2018) Commissioned by Hubert P. Van Tuyll (Georgia Regents University)

Author:

Edna Edith Sayers

Reviewer:

Holly Caldwell

Caldwell on Sayers, 'The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet'

Edna Edith Sayers. The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet. Lebanon: ForeEdge, 2017. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5126-0051-3.

Reviewed by Holly Caldwell (Chestnut Hill College) Published on H-Disability (December, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Graham H. Roberts

Reviewer:

Alla Myzelev

Myzelev on Roberts, 'Consumer Culture, Branding and Identity in the New Russia: From Five-Year Plan to 4x4'

Graham H. Roberts. Consumer Culture, Branding and Identity in the New Russia: From Five-Year Plan to 4x4. Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research Series. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. 312 pp. $170.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-72240-7.

Reviewed by Alla Myzelev (University of New York at Geneseo) Published on H-SHERA (December, 2018) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (Independent scholar/Alberta College of Art + Design)

Author:

Melanie A. Kiechle

Reviewer:

Tina M. Peabody

Peabody on Kiechle, 'Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America'

Melanie A. Kiechle. Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 352 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74193-2.

Reviewed by Tina M. Peabody (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-Envirohealth (December, 2018) Commissioned by Michitake Aso (University at Albany, SUNY)

Author:

Christina Elizabeth Firpo

Reviewer:

Natasha Pairaudeau

Pairaudeau on Firpo, 'The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980'

Christina Elizabeth Firpo. The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980. Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. 288 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-4757-9.

Reviewed by Natasha Pairaudeau (Cambridge University) Published on H-Asia (December, 2018) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Author:

Jeffrey P. Jaynes

Reviewer:

John Wyatt Greenlee

Greenlee on Jaynes, 'Christianity beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps'

Jeffrey P. Jaynes. Christianity beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2018. 483 pp. $173.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-447-10715-0.

Reviewed by John Wyatt Greenlee (Cornell University) Published on H-Medieval (December, 2018) Commissioned by Irene Jacobs

Author:

Zoltán Grossman

Reviewer:

Jacob Jurss

Jurss on Grossman, 'Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands'

Zoltán Grossman. Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xxviii + 362 pages. ISBN 978-0-295-74152-9.

Reviewed by Jacob Jurss (Metropolitan State University) Published on H-AmIndian (December, 2018) Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Author:

Daniel B. Rood

Reviewer:

Lou Roper

Roper on Rood, 'The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean'

Daniel B. Rood. The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 288 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-065526-6.

Reviewed by Lou Roper (State University of New York-New Paltz) Published on H-LatAm (December, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Steven Hahn

Reviewer:

Vernon Burton

Burton and Parten on Hahn, 'A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910'

Steven Hahn. A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910. New York: Viking Publishing, 2016. 608 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-670-02468-1.

Reviewed by Vernon Burton (Clemson University) and Bennett Parten (Clemson University) Published on H-Slavery (December, 2018) Commissioned by David M. Prior (University of New Mexico)

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McCoy on Bechtol Jr., 'North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability'

Greener on Ruffa, 'Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations: Afghanistan and Lebanon'

Covert on Rice, 'Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru'

Salazar on Tillman, 'Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic'

Klingelhofer on Gunn, 'The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII'

Turner on Pichichero, 'The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon'

Kooi on Hout, 'Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America'

Caldwell on Sayers, 'The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet'

Myzelev on Roberts, 'Consumer Culture, Branding and Identity in the New Russia: From Five-Year Plan to 4x4'

Peabody on Kiechle, 'Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America'

Pairaudeau on Firpo, 'The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980'

Greenlee on Jaynes, 'Christianity beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps'

Jurss on Grossman, 'Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands'

Roper on Rood, 'The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean'

Burton and Parten on Hahn, 'A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910'

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