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Query: Kennedy _Guns of August_ Quote

Hello,

I am Dan Reiter, professor of political science at Emory University. I have a scholarly query, related to a current research project. Two first-hand sources claim that during the Cuban Missile Crisis and then again in 1963, President Kennedy quoted from Barbara Tuchman, _The Guns of August_, that German Chancellor Theobold Bethmann-Hollweg, when asked by Prince von Bulow how World War I began, replied, "Ah, if we only knew."

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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES

Author: 
Andrea Bartoletti
Reviewer: 
Ryan D. Grauer

Grauer on Bartoletti, 'Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars'

Andrea Bartoletti. Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. x + 241 pp. $52.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6591-9

In Search of Third Panelist for SHEAR 2023 Panel "American Nations: International Approaches to U.S.-Indigenous History"

 

Dear Colleagues,

Zachary Conn and I have organized a panel for the 2023 SHEAR meeting in Philadelphia titled  "American Nations: International Approaches to U.S.-Indigenous History." We have a last minute opening on our panel - scheduled to take place Friday, July 14 from 10:30 AM to 12:15 PM - and are looking to add a new participant.

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Author: 
Andrea Bartoletti
Reviewer: 
Ryan D. Grauer

Grauer on Bartoletti, 'Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars'

Andrea Bartoletti. Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. x + 241 pp. $52.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6591-9

Author: 
Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, Marianne Zepp, eds.
Reviewer: 
John William Sutcliffe IV

Sutcliffe IV on Becker-Schaum and Gassert and Klimke and Mausbach and Zepp, 'The Nuclear Crisis: The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s'

Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach, Marianne Zepp, eds. The Nuclear Crisis: The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s. Protest, Culture & Society Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Illustrations. xvii + 374 pp.

Author: 
Martin Hearson
Reviewer: 
Michael Motala

Motala on Hearson, 'Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics (Cornell Studies in Money)'


Martin Hearson. Imposing Standards: The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics (Cornell Studies in Money). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5598-9

Author: 
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova, eds.
Reviewer: 
Jennifer Keating

Keating on Moon and Breyfogle and Bekasova, 'Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History'


David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xxi + 343 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-912186-16-7

Author: 
Bernadette Whelan
Reviewer: 
David Woolner

Woolner on Whelan, 'De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939'


Bernadette Whelan. De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xi + 387 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83017-1.

Reviewed by David Woolner (Marist College)
Published on H-Diplo (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)