Isiah Lavender III. Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement. New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. xi + 230 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8142-5556-8.
Reviewed by Nkenna Onwuzuruoha (University of Utah) Published on H-Africa (April, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Adrian Brisku. Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach. Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World Series. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. 272 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-3856-4.
Reviewed by Orel Beilinson (Yale University) Published on H-Empire (April, 2020) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)
Alison J. Bruey. Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile. Critical Human Rights Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xx + 298 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-31610-5.
Reviewed by Hillary Hiner (Universidad Diego Portales) Published on H-LatAm (April, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
David R. Coon. Turning the Page: Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 224 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-9369-2.
Reviewed by Bryan David (University of Nevada- Reno) Published on Jhistory (April, 2020) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Charles Burnett, dir. Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Movement. Oley: Bullfrog Films, 2018. Documentary, DVD, 56 min.
Reviewed by Nishani Frazier (Miami University of Ohio) Published on H-FedHist (April, 2020) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)
Talat Ahmed. Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience. London: Pluto Press, 2019. xiii + 193 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7453-3429-5.
Reviewed by Pooja Satyogi (Ambedkar University Delhi) Published on H-Socialisms (April, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Gerard Sasges, Shi Wen Ng, eds. Teo. Hard at Work: Life in Singapore Today. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2019. xxxvi + 377 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-981-3250-50-5.
Reviewed by Michael Barr (Flinders University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Jacob Ari Labendz, Shmuly Yanklowitz, eds. Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism: Studies and New Directions. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. xxiii + 348 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7361-1.
Reviewed by Jonathan Brumberg Kraus (Wheaton College, MA) Published on H-Judaic (April, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Brandon R. Byrd. The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5170-8.
Reviewed by Jeremy D. Popkin (University of Kentucky) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
David Stenner. Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiv + 289 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0811-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0899-3.
Reviewed by Ann Wainscott (Miami University) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Nadia Maria Filippini. Generare, Partorire, Nascere: Una Storia Dall’Antichità Alla Provetta. Rome: Viella, 2017. 349 pp. Ill. EUR 29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-88-6728-673-7.
Reviewed by Anna Argiro' (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Italy (April, 2020) Commissioned by Matteo Pretelli (University of Naples "L'Orientale")
Samuel P. Hanes. The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era. Environmental History of the Northeast Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. 246 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-413-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62534-412-0.
Reviewed by David McCaskey (University of California, Riverside) Published on H-Environment (April, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)
Craig M. Nakashian. Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England, 1000-1250: Theory and Reality. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2016. 272 pp. $24.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-78204-867-1; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-162-7.
Reviewed by Jacob Doss (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-War (April, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Elizabeth C. MacKnight. Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France. Studies in Modern French and Francophone History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. Tables. x + 291 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5261-2051-9.
Reviewed by Doina Georgeta Harsanyi (Central Michigan University) Published on H-War (April, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
David T. Zabecki. The Generals' War: Operational Level Command on the Western Front in 1918. Twentieth-Century Battles Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. 440 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03701-5.
Reviewed by Perry Colvin (Auburn University) Published on H-War (April, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
