Reviews in Military History

Fong, Brian C. H.; Wu, Jieh-Min; Nathan, Andrew J., eds.. China's Influence and the Centre-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780367533564.

Reviewed by Justin Wu (California State Sacramento )
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Singerton, Jonathan. The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy. The Revolutionary Age Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. xviii + 366 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780813948218.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780813948225.

Verney, Michael A.. A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226818382.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780226819921.

Popkin, Maggie L.. The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 310 pp. $106.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781107103573.

Reviewed by Julia Wetzel (University of North Texas)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Williams, Kidada E.. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 384 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781635576634.$21.00 (e-book), ISBN 9781635576641.

Stillwell, Paul. Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xvii + 339 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781682475935.

Reviewed by John T. Kuehn (US Army Command and General Staff College)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Wood, Larry. Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri. Civil War Series. Charleston: History Press, 2022. 160 pp. $23.99 (paper), ISBN 9781467150095.

Reviewed by Thomas F. Curran (Cor Jesu Academy)
Published on H-CivWar (September, 2023)
Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Tillman, Kacy Dowd. Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. Illustrations. 224 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625344311.$28.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625344328.

Zuckert, Michael P.. A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty. Constitutional Thinking. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. 416 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780700633920.

Reviewed by Thomas C. Mackey (University of Louisville)
Published on H-CivWar (September, 2023)
Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Rasmussen, Anders Bo. Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiii + 359 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781108845564.

Reviewed by Sophia Rouse (Texas A and M)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)