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)
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.
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.
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 Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion.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)
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
Gonzalo Lamana.
How "Indians" Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Race Theory.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 256 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-3966-6.
Reviewed by José Carlos de la Puente Luna (Texas State University) Published on H-LatAm (December, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Malcolm Jack.
To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2018. 270 pp.
$24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68448-000-5.
Reviewed by Naomi Preston (University of South Wales) Published on H-Slavery (December, 2020) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jonathan Jeffrey Wright.
An Ulster Slave Owner in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Life and Letters of John Black.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018. 160 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-736-5.
Reviewed by Finola O'Kane Crimmins (University College Dublin) Published on H-Albion (December, 2020) Commissioned by Douglas Kanter (Florida Atlantic University)
Benjamin Allen Coates.
Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 298 pp.
$27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-005558-5.
Reviewed by Charles Gartland (Air University, JAG School) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Jack Darrell Crowder. African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 217 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7672-2.
Reviewed by Joseph McGaughy (Auburn University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55102
Andrew H. Beattie. Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 248 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48763-4.
Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (University of Potsdam) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Nicholas R. Jones. Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. xxiii + 221 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-08346-9.
Reviewed by Chloe Ireton (UCL History) Published on H-Black-Europe (December, 2020) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)
John M. Coggeshall. Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 296 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4085-3.
Reviewed by Katie Orr (Teaching for Change) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Natan M. Meir.
Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939.
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xiv + 343 pp.
$30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1305-8; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1183-2.
D. Christian Lammerts.
Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250-1850.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. 304 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7260-1.
Reviewed by Jacques Leider (École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)) Published on H-Asia (December, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
