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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Announce: 14 November - 21 November

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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 14 November 2016 to 21 November 2016. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce.

CFP: Conference on Prevention of Mass Violence and Promotion of Tolerance, Kolkata, 27-28 Feb 2017

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Prevention of Mass Violence and Promotion of Tolerance: Lessons from History

International Multidisciplinary Conference

Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, India

27-28 February 2017

 

H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 10 on Franco Sells Spain to America: Hollywood, Tourism and Public Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power

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Roundtable Review
Volume XVIII, No. 10
(2016)
21 November 2016

 

Roundtable Editors:  Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Roundtable and Web Production Editor:  George Fujii
Introduction by Frank Ninkovich

[PDF] H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII-10 [21 November 2016]

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PDF verison of H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 10 on Neal Rosendorf.  Franco Sells Spain to America:  Hollywood, Tourism and Public Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power.  New York:  Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.  ISBN:  978-1-137-29928-4 (hardcover, $100.00); 978-1-349-45264-4 (softcover, $95.00).

Call for submissions - Journal Estudos Históricos (Special Issue “Global and Transnational Approaches”)

Call for submissions - Journal Estudos Históricos

(edited by the School of Social Sciences of Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

 

Special Issue “Global and Transnational Approaches”

(Special editor: prof. Alexandre Moreli )

 

Short introduction of the Journal Estudos Históricos

Author: 
Hal Brands
Reviewer: 
Heather W. Williams

Williams on Brands, 'Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order'

Hal Brands. Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 480 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0272-3.

Reviewed by Heather W. Williams (Kings College) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2016) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

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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)

Author: 
Ryan D. Griffiths
Reviewer: 
Nikola Mirilovic

Mirilovic on Griffiths, 'Secession and the Sovereignty Game: Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations'

Ryan D. Griffiths. Secession and the Sovereignty Game: Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Illustrations, tables. xii + 231 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5474-6